The Bureau of Corrections (BuCor) has committed to introduce significant reforms within the agency in four months, Senator Sonny Angara said Thursday.
At the Senate plenary debates on the proposed 2023 National Budget, Senator Raffy Tulfo asked the BuCor, an agency under the Department of Justice, about its plan to address the alleged corruption in the bureau, particularly the entry of contraband inside the prisons.
"Ito ho ba ay matutuldukan o patuloy na ating makikita o mararamdaman o mababalitaan itong klaseng problema sa loob ng BuCor?" he added. "Give them two to four years daw ho talagang mag-iimplementa sila ng mahigpit na sistema..systemic changes to reform the system in the BuCor," Angara added."'Yung two to four years, pwede ba nating gawing two to four months? Kung gusto maraming paraan. Kung ayaw maraming dahilan," Tulfo said.
The BuCor has been on the spotlight over controversies cited in testimonies that a prisoner from the New Bilibid Prison allegedly ordered the killing of broadcast journalist Percy Lapid.Tulfo then attributed the problem to the alleged connivance with BuCor officers.
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