MANILA, Philippines — An inmate who was about to obtain freedom could no longer wait and decided to escaped from the New Bilibid Prison’s (NBP) minimum security compound.
A source said the inmate, identified as Edgardo Austria with prison number N98P-0248 from the prison facility’s Minimum Security Compound escaped on the same week that an “Oplan Galugad” was conducted.
The national penitentiary such as Bilibid has three security compounds — maximum, medium, and minimum. Convicts serving more than 20 years of prison time are housed at the maximum security compound; On the other hand, persons deprived of liberty (PDL) serving less than 20 years are at the medium security com…
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