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in the philippines president retreat go deter site is declared a war on drugs that's left more than 12000 people dead. but they're not the only victims it's also left tens of thousands of people languishing in giles is caught struggle to process a record number of drug arrests but i thought where am i why am i here i shouldn't be here what is this place. i'm on a one ace we investigate the shocking conditions inside the world's most congested giles and the inmates trying to survive because. it's early in the morning and a full name is rising. in the shadows like thousands of bodies

waged into every corner of every inch. welcome to manila city jail one of the most congested prisons in the world 2. we've been given extended access he is to find out why chance in the philippines a so overcrowded and to meet the inmates who've been called months. it is by their own government. so tell me about the job most peaceful here in the south sector jair expressed in the era is the jails chief records office up even he is shocked by the conditions here right now based on the united nations minimum standards are ideal capacity should be around $1100.00 inmates but the actual jail population right now is up to $6300.00 inmates. that's almost 600

percent of the capacity. we should be scared you know because we can be outnumbered . and that's not an exaggeration according to international standards this should be one god for every 7 prisoners. the ratio here is one to about 200. to cody officials have adopted some unusual solutions. i think the most unique is when we use the inmates the police are there you know it's the elect their own leaders and then we delegate some of our authority again to their need there's. the marcellus they help us in such a piece in order to. post

in here a admits the jails here have always been crowded but it has reached unprecedented levels since president rhodri go to to take announced his war on drugs. arjay population has increased by 50 percent since that since 26 being where the time where he took office 5050 percent yeah 50 percent. in the slums of manilla this war has become infamous for the extrajudicial killing of thousands of drug suspects rights groups accuse the police of being involved. but look beyond the blood shed and you find tens of thousands of people who are incarcerated indefinitely after being arrested for drug crimes. to see this campaign in action we joined the drug enforcement agency on an

operation to bost a suspected dealer. in a manila parking lot undercover agents away saying in this car to buy crystal meth or shopping from the suspect. it was a difficult enough. but it's a tense weiss as agents negotiate the deal so we're still waiting for. the driver of the car with. them that the law is a clash of. the agency moving to make the rest. of. the. bases just on the hof a kilo of shabu with

a street value of about $60000.00. how much jail time is he looking at. between the. there you mean. in the later years when. the operation is a success but our investigation suggests that not all drug arrests this clean. since 2016 almost 160000 people have been arrested in the anti narcotics campaign. guilty or not they go straight to prisons like manila city jail . jails in the philippines were built to hold around 20000 people but today they housing more than 130000 most of these people haven't even been convicted of a crime based still waiting to verdicts in the case of. one

of the inmates stuck in this limbo is good they're maupassant he's already spent more than 2. 100 for a verdict in his drug case. we meet him as he's heading to yet another court hearing. the 1st time i set foot inside here i felt like i was being choked. i thought where am i why am i here i shouldn't be here what is this place. suddenly i found myself crying i was so scared. i was charged with section $5.11 possession and dealing drugs the police report that he was busted with 0.24 grams of shoppers but glamour says he was set up by a cop during a drug operation in his neighborhood. one

a policeman shouted. he has a gun i was like wait i don't have to go. when they didn't find anything but the same policeman said i'm going to charge you with $511.00 a much more serious crime. says the officers planted evidence against him at the police station. on the table there was already the evidence and they told me to point at it so they can take a photo but i refused i said that's not mine why do i have to point out that. they told me do you want us to kill you we should have killed you while ago. they asked me how much can you give i said what do you mean they said just give us $2000.00 you can bill yourself. i told them i don't have any money i'm poor. i have to admit i was skeptical of glamor

story almost everyone in jail says the innocent but he says he has no reason to lie he's already pled guilty to the charges. even if you didn't do anything you have to admit to it just so you can plea bargain to be released early . we have to bite the bullet we don't have a choice. we're doing this for the sake of our family. there is no bail for drug offenses if glare mo for the charges he could spend years in prison just waiting for a verdict. by pleading guilty he got a reduced sentence that technically he's already served. and now. i guess i'm going. to get them. after

a long ways. it's finally go their most turn to appear before the judge. but within minutes. it's he's back out in the hallway the judge did not grant his release he still has to have a mandatory drug test to determine if he's an addict and that could take months. when their money is devastated. he was sure he was going home to his family i don't know about the body but i don't know about i will. start to get that i. know my and out of the number of things we'll. let. you know you're watching them other than some. but the more.

about the. muslims having a beginning. they're most not the only one having a rough day at the course how many people here are here for drugs cases raise your hat. most people ok and how many people here had their hearings canceled up a sport raise your hands. so all of these hearings scheduled but as you can see a lot of them never got to come before a judge. every time a hearing is perspiring and it prolongs the trial adding months to an inmate's incarceration. the courts a so of a stretch that this happens all the time leaving people stranded behind bars for years. it's enough to push some to suicide by.

the. at the jail inmates have set up a support group to help each other cope good morning by me being. a. month last month and being shackled. near 6 months like most of the prisoners many here were arrested for drugs. that are much. more nationally but many only show. these sessions are led by 58 year old tree hill leo reyes. he's one of the prisons longest serving inmates with his trial dragging on now for more than 14 years. he says is what's kept him a mind if. my government. building be matt damon. one man up i give up because

i know drink or knowing i'm. really i was a decorated public servant working for the manila city council but in 2004 he was charged with falsifying public documents and embezzling money charges he says were politically motivated what should we do when we have a bear we have here in the gate what should we do. our hand do or. have you ever been convicted of a crime no conviction. we. really have the hell you know has been acquitted of over 20 cases but he still has more than 50 pending today he's missing a jail paralegal to find out if his hearings can be fast tracked.

him. a new member hearing. of. 200 behaving badly. now you would have thought not would be my more done when. at this race he could die in jail before the court gets through all his cases you have spent more than 14 years in jail are you not angry or bitter about being forced to stay here if you are a high degree you will not buy a. i need to get i will be a main. aide going up on. me because i used to be born made mainly. of the lump and.

all the office i can do is fill out a complaint form for him. but if he's disappointed he doesn't show it he says today he wants to forget his problems. it's prisoner awareness week and everyone else in the jail isn't a good. dance competitions. and the hill is leading the charge in simba. families have also come to watch the festivities. they're allowed in he has 6 days a week wives even get conjugal visits and children get to spend time with their father. many inmates tell me that this is the only thing that keeps them sane.

people don't have visited us they get depressed. they start thinking too much they always wonder why they don't have any visitors. but claire mo doesn't allow his children to visit he can't bear for them to see him behind bars. you know they. so i would ask. their most is that even though he can be with his children he tries to be a good father but it's not easy. and then now.

and i don't. think. it's forcing them to be honest about this is my responsibility as a father. i never experienced my father's love in that i never felt is love it was never in the mind. when i'm with the saudi diggle i promised myself. when i have kids i will never let them experience what my father did to me. oh oh oh oh. oh. oh. oh oh. oh. i don't feel it. was a good love a nice bit closer to the way. things

outside during 7. visit. his youngest daughter. because he asks us to conceal her identity he doesn't want to be stigmatized because of his imprisonment things have been damaged by the whole thing. was. the same. thing. they've been going to my passion. for hayley i was a father of 5 when he was sent to jail now they have kids of their own yet not all of that change shotgun on the pavement. but despite everything the hero says he's grateful in spite of my many years good in the game the prime minister they've been a. very very good. she is leading the role in

the mulder and the bugger children and belle big over all grown. it's been a good day for heavier. but time has passed too quickly you know for the. fun they get out of the i'm on my i'm among them on the provisional which alone is not going to. as much as the love seeing his family or his ears says it's on bearable watching them leave. calamity is also having a tough nice to spending the day watching other fathers spend time with their children. sitting between us my kids are my strength. and that's why i'm trying to be strong. for them.

he prays for them every nice he says he can never forgive the police to separating him from his family 7 their motto is to serve and protect but the reality is they only serve and protect themselves. again and again inmates told me disturbing stories about police misconduct allegations of torture extortion and the planting of evidence. but they didn't have proof. then i came across a chilling story. a team of journalists and human rights activists raided a police station in manila after receiving a tip off what they found inside was shocking. behind this

bookshelf diane covered a windowless secret cell hiding 12 terrified people to. that. they were detained as drug suspects but none of them had been charged with a crime in fact the station had no record of them at all was. something that was found out. that. the detainees said this cell had no water or functioning toilet they were difficult using plastic bags. they said police had tortured them and demanded money for their release nothing else would know more than you know really quite a bit of gossip in the country no no one could orient their. i don't know what are you going to go 300. 009 will be enough money on the budget.

for it's going down i'm going to buy those i would've. thought. the commander of the station denies the allegations he said that simply run out of space in the holding cell like your example i was. invited to the traveling public be stimulated by don't give me no. general what to let me know what you think of any vision that you don't like that everything that you have a portuguese out of work. since the great none of the officers from the station have been fired. meanwhile the detainees have been forced into hiding. we tracked down one of the men who was in that cell. we didn't know. when we arrived they just punched me and told me to confess to having drugs and but

they weren't mine they didn't find anything on me. this former detainees has been in hiding for months terrified of police retribution he says he spent 9 days in that cell while police try to force a confession. after my arrest they wouldn't stop beating me. every night they would bring me out of the cell and say let's kill this guy in a drug operation. or i was bleeding sweating i even urinated. did you think it was strange that the police were locking you up in this pit and so . they put us in that cell so they could extolled money from us that's the truth i was told i'd be released if i gave them about a $1000.00 but if none of us could pay they were charging us with section 511.

we try to put these allegations to the philippine national police they would not talk to us but activists say that police misconduct is endemic with impoverished and innocent people routinely arrested. it's an experience that. says he's had 1st hand. most of us out of 100 percent i only have 5 percent faith in the police. so many of my neighbors are in jail with me. our whole communities here. most says the police and the law have failed him even after pleading guilty and serving the sentence for a crime he says he didn't commit he's still stuck in prison here with the saddle. today he's finally getting his court ordered drug test he needs

a clean urine sample and the green light from the doctor before he can be released it would. little trouble but a little malevolent a lot of unemployed and a lot of the no police for miles and those who say i don't mind your 6 months talk to hussein one brand has been working in drug rehabilitation facility he has. what was your assessment of the stick a sign i think when i see my son not drug use or his that using drugs anymore and therefore there is no impaired base on our part to do in your experience to a lot of people are not using drugs at mit using drugs just to get out of jail they are there people who i mean by less selfish just to be able to get up. earlier than all the might. see their most says he has

lost faith in justice. now he can only tune to god and the president mr president mr president not everyone who is in jail is that. not everyone is a bad person. we are human beings like you. after more than 14 years the hell you know is also desperately trying to hold on to his face he still believes that one day he will be free a student 1 may like to have the purple that might actually these things have a purpose. bring i've been played up i shall be here in bend when the. a moment in time. snapshots of. providing the clips

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