Eye-opening images reveal the daily life of the 3,800 inmates serving time behind the walls of a prison built for just 800.
Inside Quezon City jail in Manila, the capital of the Philippines, there is a relentless and constant battle for space.
Men
take turns to sleep on the cracked cement floor of an open-air
basketball court, the steps of staircases, underneath beds and hammocks
made out of old blankets.
The prison was built six decades ago and houses prisoners whose cases are pending, according to the Inquirer.
The
images show the men in their day-to-day life, from bathing themselves
to cooking their food and exercising in close, cramped conditions.
Wearing
their regulation yellow shirts, they also participate in group dancing
contests, taking over the concrete basketball court and the walkway
above.
One former
inmate at the Quezon City jail returned to the prison after studying
criminal justice at the Southern Illinois University in the United
States.
Raymund
Narag says he was 20 when he was accused of a crime he did not commit,
the murder of a young man in the Philippines, according to the GMA Network.
Mr
Narag served seven years, where he said he stayed in a cell with 30
other men instead of the intended five and lived off a diet of dried
fish that he says barely sustained him.
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