No drug manufacturing inside national prison but phone transactions ongoing, lawyer admits

THERE is neither manufacturing nor proliferation of illegal drugs inside the New Bilibid Prison (NBP) but "transactions or telephone communications" between the prisoners and their contacts outside have been monitored, according to the Bureau of Corrections (BuCor).

"Actually we are concurring with the PDEA, there is no manufacturing, there is no proliferation inside the Bureau of Corrections or New Bilibid Prison...the transactions or telephone communications, that's all that is happening inside the New Bilibid Prison but there is actually no proliferation inside," lawyer Daisy Castillote, legal officer of BuCor, told the House of Representatives’ Committee on Justice on Wednesday.