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SEVEN of the more than 150 inmates who escaped from the Cotabato District Jail in Amas, Kidapawan City have been killed as the manhunt for the escaped inmates is intensified. According to the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) spokesman Chief Insp. Xavier Solda, at least six of the inmates have already been recaptured. Five of them surrendered to local officials in Cotabato. The jailbreak happened past 1 a.m. Wednesday (January 4) when […]
MANILA, Philippines (AFP) — China has pledged funds for a new detention facility in the Philippines as part of its support for President Rodrigo Duterte’s drug war, the Philippine jail chief said Wednesday. Duterte’s unprecedented crackdown has worsened severe congestion in Philippine jails, with AFP photographs of Quezon City Jail in July exposing how inmates in one of the nation’s most overcrowded detention facilities took turns to sleep on an open-air basketball court and a […]
by Ayee Macaraig MANILA, Philippines (AFP) — 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. 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 […]
