page_title: Bureau of Immigration Bicutan Detention Center
hierarchical_section_title: Bureau of Immigration Bicutan Detention Center
caption_attribution_description: English: Upper Bicutan, Taguig City Camp Bagong Diwa, NCR Police Office, Bicutan, Taguig City General Santos Avenue Our Lady of the Holy Rosary Parish Church (Purok 5, M.L. Quezon Street, Lower Bicutan, Taguig City) 1632 Bicutan Parochial School Roman Catholic Diocese of Pasig Lower Bicutan, Taguig City Legislative district of Taguig City Legislative district of Pateros-Taguig City Barangay Lower Bicutan 14°29'18"N 121°3'39"E beside Bagumbayan 14°28'33"N 121°3'18"E Bagumbayan, Taguig, Taguig City (Note: Judge Florentino Floro, the owner, to repeat, Donor Florentino Floro of all these photos hereby donate gratuitously, freely and unconditionally all these photos to and for Wikimedia Commons, exclusively, for public use of the public domain, and again without any condition whatsoever).
context_page_description: The Bureau of Immigration Bicutan Detention Center is the principal immigration detention center administered by the Bureau of Immigration of the Philippines. Located inside Camp Bagong Diwa, in Lower Bicutan, Taguig, the facility is known internally as the Warden Facility and Protection Unit. However, in press releases and public statements, the Bureau variously refers to the facility as being a "jail", "warden facility" or "detention center". The function of the facility is to hold foreign detainees who are awaiting deportation, for example, because they have pending criminal cases, or because they have allegedly overstayed their visas.
  Perennially overcrowded, it has been accused of widespread human rights abuses and has been compared to a gulag by The Manila Times. As an administrative detention center, there is no constitutional right to bail from BI–Bicutan, and some detainees have spent upwards of ten years there, neither convicted of a crime nor deported from the country.
context_section_description: The Bureau of Immigration Bicutan Detention Center (BI–Bicutan) is the principal immigration detention center administered by the Bureau of Immigration of the Philippines. Located inside Camp Bagong Diwa, in Lower Bicutan, Taguig, the facility is known internally as the Warden Facility and Protection Unit (WFPU). However, in press releases and public statements, the Bureau variously refers to the facility as being a "jail", "warden facility" or "detention center". The function of the facility is to hold foreign detainees who are awaiting deportation, for example, because they have pending criminal cases, or because they have allegedly overstayed their visas.
  Perennially overcrowded, it has been accused of widespread human rights abuses and has been compared to a gulag by The Manila Times. As an administrative detention center, there is no constitutional right to bail from BI–Bicutan, and some detainees have spent upwards of ten years there, neither convicted of a crime nor deported from the country.
caption: The gate of Camp Bagong Diwa, within which the Bicutan Detention Center sits.
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