IT was not true that the 12,000 inmates at New Bilibid Prisons in Muntinlupa City (Metro Manila) threatened to stage deadly riots inside the maximum security compound if Justice Secretary Leila de Lima would not halt demolition of “kubols” or huts inside NBP, the national penitentiary.
Truth was corrupt NBP and Bureau of Corrections officials had succeeded in making de Lima believe that ordinary convicts were against the dismantling of the kubols set up by Chinese drug lords. [ FULL STORY ]
