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(Photo courtesy of DOJ) MANILA - Plans to decongest the country's prison facilities will include an effective rehabilitation program for persons deprived of liberty (PDLs), the Department of Justice (DOJ) said Friday. This came as the agency revealed a plan to move some facilities of the Bureau of Corrections (BuCor) from Muntinlupa City to Fort Magsaysay in Palayan City, Nueva Ecija. "(T)here are plans to move BuCor facilities to Nueva Ecija at Fort Magsaysay. We want to address the congestion problem in NBP (New Bilibid Prison) in Muntinlupa in order to provide humane living conditions to the prisoners," DOJ spokesperson and incoming Assistant Secretary Mico Clavano said in a message to reporters. Clavano said these plans would be coordinated with the Department of Health (DOH) and the Department of National Defense (DND). Fort Magsaysay, a military reservation, is under the DND while the rehabilitation facility inside it, the Mega Drug Abuse Treatment and Rehabilitatio