15-12-2016 19:03 via uk.news.yahoo.com

Philippines jails at 'breaking point' amid Duterte's drugs war

Prison officers in the Philippines are concerned that jail overcrowding as a result of President Rodrigo Duterte's bloody drug war is pushing the system to breaking point. Quezon City Jail has become infamous after photographs taken shortly after the start of the drug war showed inmates crammed into every inch of space, forced to sleep out of their cells in what would normally be recreation areas. Sky News saw individual cells built for 20-30 people packed with 130 and more.
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