Prison Plan Kept Secret as Cells Become Overcrowded

Prison plan kept secret as cells become overcrowded

Hundreds of inmates are sleeping on mattresses on the floor, it can be revealed, as prison overcrowding puts the Cook Government under pressure to reveal its plans to pay for a new jail.

Government official admits inmates subjected to torture in jails

“Unlike prisons in some other countries, food is delivered to our PDLs inside their crowded cells, forcing them to eat on their beds and making their surroundings stink. Our jails smell really bad, itself a form of torture.” MANILA – A government official admitted that persons deprived of liberty (PDLs) in the Philippines are victims of various forms of torture, and urged major reforms in the country’s prison system. Interior and Local Governmen…