Crime war packs Philippine jails - News Summed Up

Crime war packs Philippine jails


Inmates ride on a prison bus to attend their trial at the Quezon City regional trial court in Manila. Dimaculangan is the longest-serving inmate in Quezon City Jail, after being charged with killing a politician's relative in 2001. Narag, 41, was locked up in Quezon City Jail in 1995 as a 20-year-old after being accused of killing a student from a rival college fraternity. (AFP Photo)MANILA: Mario Dimaculangan shares a toilet with 130 other inmates in one of the Philippines' most overcrowded jails, and conditions are getting worse as police wage an unprecedented war on crime. Inmates sleep on the ground of an open basketball court inside the Quezon City jail in Manila.


Source: Bangkok Post July 30, 2016 08:26 UTC



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