More than 31,000 persons deprived of liberty (PDLs) nationwide will vote inside the over 400 special polling precincts inside ...

Some 31,000 persons deprived of liberty (PDL) are set to cast their votes inside jails and other special polling precincts in ...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Attorneys for a Utah man who has been on death row for 37 years are due before a state judge Wednesday ...

Rodrigo Duterte’s arrest reveals ambivalence towards human rights violations made in the pursuit of anti-drug policy.

As Cebu City gears up for the May 12 national and local elections, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) is ensuring that ...

The legislation would have given the state parole board more discretion to deny parole to state prisoners. The House passed the bill 75-16 on April 16 and the Senate passed it 22-4 on March 27. Gov.

A World War II-era Philippine navy ship to be used as a target in a combat exercise by American and the Philippine forces accidentally sank Monday hours before the mock assault, prompting the drill to ...

There are no official candidates for the papacy, but some cardinals are considered ''papabile,'' or possessing the characteristics necessary to become pope. After St. John Paul II broke the ...

Authorities arrested three policemen at the Caloocan Police Station for allegedly extorting from the visitors of inmates.

The death of an L.A. County inmate marks the 13th suspected homicide in state prisons this year as violence surges despite a ...

In a move to deepen ASEAN cooperation, the National Commission on Muslim Filipinos (NCMF) will undergo its first formal ...

The Philippine National Police (PNP) anti-scalawag unit arrested three cops assigned to the Caloocan City Police Station for ...