BJMP pours heart out to communities

The Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) said its Community Relations Service Month has become an advocacy to establish and sustain good relations with the different sectors of communities nationwide.

BJMP Chief Jail Director Deogracias Tapayan said the celebration continues to bring support to hundreds of communities on their environmental conservation and protection with BJMP planting thousands of trees that are endemic especially in coastal areas. Part of the efforts includes cleanup drive, adopt-a-tree activity and monitoring of adopted communities.

Started in 2012, the BJMP’s observance of Community Relations Service Month has become a time for it to host clean and green programs, legal consultations, promotion of penology profession to schools and universities, conducted read-a-book activities to children, literary and painting competition among persons deprived of liberty, and medical missions across the country.

“The jail bureau recognizes the indispensable role of community in reinforcing our efforts to assist and rehabilitate persons deprived of liberty,” said Tapayan. “In fact, this is part of our continuing efforts to bring them and the entire bureau closer to the hearts of the communities nationwide.”

The bureau was also able to channel also Filipino values to thousands of children in preparatory and elementary schools through book reading activities while thousands of persons deprived of liberty were assisted by lawyers from the Public Attorney’s Office, private firms and the local chapters of the Integrated Bar of the Philippines.