MANILA – The Bureau of Corrections (BuCor) on Wednesday said 31 persons deprived of liberty (PDL) at the Leyte Regional ...

Cambodia has pardoned 13 Philippine women who were jailed over a surrogacy scheme for foreigners. The women were sentenced to four years in prison earlier this month on human trafficking charges.

Mary Jane Veloso, who spent almost 15 years in an Indonesian prison for drug trafficking, was allowed to return home after Indonesia and the Philippines signed a “practical arrangement” deal ...

Veloso was transferred on Sunday to the Indonesian capital Jakarta from a women’s prison in Yogyakarta province. From there, she will be flown back to the Philippines early Wednesday morning ...

MANILA, Philippines — The House of Representatives on Friday ordered the transfer of the Office of the Vice President (OVP) Undersecretary Zuleika Lopez to the women’s prison in Mandaluyong City.

MANILA--A U.S. Marine convicted of killing a transgender woman in the Philippines nearly six years ago will remain in prison while the victim’s lawyer seeks to overturn a court ruling granting ...