More than 5000 inmates die in Philippine jail every year.
Posted: Thu Nov 07, 2019 12:48 am
Inmates sleep on the ground of an open basketball court inside the Quezon City jail on July 19, 2016
By Jessie Yeung, CNN
October 18, 2019
(CNN)One in five detainees at the Philippines' national penitentiary die every year, officials at the prison hospital have revealed.
About 5,200 inmates at the New Bilibid Prison (NBP) die annually due to overcrowding, disease and violence, according to hospital medical chief Ernesto Tamayo, CNN affiliate CNN Philippines reported
The high number of deaths is shocking -- but not exactly a new problem. Other prisons around the country are facing similar problems; when CNN visited a Quezon City jail in 2016, more than 4,000 inmates were living cheek by jowl in one of the most densely populated corners of the Philippines.
Conditions were terrible, with the inmates crammed together into crumbling, ramshackle cells. There's barely space for them to sleep -- one room held 85 inmates in a 200-square foot space. Another one, bigger but not by much, held 131. It was designed for 30.
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