One of the Most Congested Prison in the World is in the Philippines (See Photos)

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

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 ooooooo

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

PLENTY NONSENSE,,,,

Posted: at 3-08-2016 11:59 AM (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

D best way of life na crimefree

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

This is inhumane

Posted: at 3-08-2016 05:35 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

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

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