Nicanor Escalona Faeldon (Tagalog pronunciation: [faʔelˈdɔn]; born July 29, 1965) is a Filipino former Marine who served as the director-general of the Bureau of Corrections under the Duterte administration from November 21, 2018, until he was fired in September 2019.

Led by Captains Gerardo Gambala, Milo Maestrecampo, Nicanor Faeldon and Lt(sg) Antonio Trillanes IV, they denounced corruption and politicization in the military, alleging, among others, that military officials had been selling arms and ammunition to insurgents and that the government had no intention of resolving existing armed conflicts to allow the corrupt practices to continue.

Candelaria Rivas (JAGS), a military lawyer with the Judge Advocate General's Office, who was prosecuting his and the other alleged mutineers' court martial case.

Faeldon released a statement explaining why he in turn would not plea bargain to any of the offenses he was charged with in connection with the alleged mutiny and that he was continuing the fight they began at Oakwood.

He closes his statement by saying: If this refusal to bargain means a prison term or the loss of my life, I am prepared, now, as much as I was four years ago, to pay the price for telling the truth.

Detained Senator Antonio Trillanes IV, Brigadier General Danilo D. Lim, and 25 other Magdalo officers walked out of their trial and marched through the streets of Makati, called for the ousting of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, and seized the second floor of the Manila Peninsula Hotel along Ayala Avenue.

Trillanes and Lim surrendered to government forces several hours after the beginning of the mutiny, after the military armored personnel carrier barged into the lobby of the hotel.

Faeldon is facing graft charges before the Sandiganbayan anti-graft court for allowing PHP34.04 million worth of rice to be released to importer Cebu Lite Trading Incorporated without permits.

He stepped down on 5 September 2019 after being fired by President Rodrigo Duterte amid public outrage over the early release under the Good Conduct Time Allowance (GCTA) law of thousands of prison convicts.

The most controversial of which was when the media got a copy of a release order signed by Faeldon for former Calauan mayor Antonio Sanchez, who had been sentenced to seven life terms in 1999 for the rape and murder of University of the Philippines student Eileen Sarmenta and her friend Allan Gomez.

[18] Faeldon organized the "Kalayaan Atin Ito" a youth-led activity whose participants went to Spratlys to assert the Philippines' sovereign claims over the contested region in the South China Sea.

[26][27] Faeldon is married to Jelina Maree Magsuci, a lawyer and city councilor of Calapan, Oriental Mindoro who also served as his legal counsel in his graft case until the Sandiganbayan banned her from doing so in 2024, citing conflict of interest with her political position.