These photographs by photojournalist Noel Celis who works for AFP reveal the shocking conditions in an overcrowded prison near Manila in the Philippines. Quezon City Jail was built 60 years ago to house 800 prisoners. It now accommodates 3,800 men, who compete daily for space. Inmates take turns to sleep on the floor of an open-air basketball court, on the steps of staircases, underneath beds, and in hammocks made out of old blankets. Their bodies are packed together like sardines, unable to stretch out.  When it rains conditions become even worse because inmates cannot sleep in the open air. The government provides a daily budget of  about $1.10 for food and 8 pence for medicine per inmate, according to an AFP report. There is just one toilet for every 130 men, and buckets of water are used to flush them. The stench is compounded by rotting rubbish in a nearby canal. The Philippine prison system is the third most congested in the world, according to the University of London's Institute for Criminal Policy Research. Conditions in the prison are getting worse as police wage a brutal war on crime. Security forces have killed hundreds of people and detained thousands more in just one month as they have followed the orders of President Rodrigo Duterte, who has said the top priority at the start of his six-year term is to eliminate drugs in society.

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Posted: at 3-08-2016 10:45 AM (7 years ago) | Addicted Hero

GOD forbid how Nigeria own go come be.

Posted: at 3-08-2016 10:59 AM (7 years ago) | Gistmaniac

That's the price of crime.... Thou some of the inmates might be innocent.

Posted: at 3-08-2016 11:00 AM (7 years ago) | Newbie

na wa oh,, I WONDER THE KIND OF SMELL FROM THAT PRISON..

Posted: at 3-08-2016 11:08 AM (7 years ago) | Addicted Hero

na wa ooooooo

Posted: at 3-08-2016 11:09 AM (7 years ago) | Grande Master

wahala full yakpa for this world na waiting person go do na, who dey outside dey complain waiting you say make dem wey dey inside world talk?

Posted: at 3-08-2016 11:39 AM (7 years ago) | Gistmaniac

PLENTY NONSENSE,,,,

Posted: at 3-08-2016 11:59 AM (7 years ago) | Hero

SEE UR USELESS LIFE OUTSIDE, FUTURE OF TOMORROW INDEED.....

Posted: at 3-08-2016 12:09 PM (7 years ago) | Hero

na here they suppose pack all our leaders from from Baba to the least go keep.

Posted: at 3-08-2016 01:34 PM (7 years ago) | Gistmaniac

Naija beta o

Posted: at 3-08-2016 01:45 PM (7 years ago) | Gistmaniac

D best way of life na crimefree

Posted: at 3-08-2016 02:44 PM (7 years ago) | Hero

I only pity for the innocent once.

Posted: at 3-08-2016 03:52 PM (7 years ago) | Gistmaniac

This is inhumane

Posted: at 3-08-2016 05:35 PM (7 years ago) | Hero

One reason wey you no suppose commit crime

Posted: at 3-08-2016 06:07 PM (7 years ago) | Hero

Dis is bad na haba. They shld either relocate some or try them once and for all.

Posted: at 3-08-2016 06:38 PM (7 years ago) | Addicted Hero

seriously

Posted: at 3-08-2016 08:54 PM (7 years ago) | Gistmaniac

Do you know, prison is a transit station to hell? Some have been deported from there and made heaven. While some from there, they went to hell

Posted: at 3-08-2016 11:21 PM (7 years ago) | Gistmaniac

WHO DEY OUTSIDE THANK GOD THOUGH SAY THE OUTSIDE TOO ROUGH BUT BETTER

Posted: at 4-08-2016 12:39 AM (7 years ago) | Gistmaniac

Make una no forget say some naijas i.e Igbo guys wey dem catch for drugs dey dere oo....
Anyway if u get money u go live fine for dat place...

Posted: at 4-08-2016 01:08 AM (7 years ago) | Hero

Not my portion

Posted: at 4-08-2016 05:29 PM (7 years ago) | Gistmaniac

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