Some 4,000 quarantine and curfew violators are detained in police lockups and are awaiting transfer to city jails. COVID19PH
have also asked the government to release nonviolent prisoners, saying overpopulated prisons, jails and lock-up cells make them fertile grounds for spreading infectious diseases.
Even before the pandemic, poor jail conditions have already resulted in the death of 300 to 800 inmates annually in recent years, according to BJMP doctor Paul Borlongan. In 2018 alone, 40 prisoners died each month in different BJMP jails in Metro Manila, said Narag. NAVOTAS CITY JAIL DETAINEES. The Philippines has the most crowded correctional system in the world. This image appeared in Rocamora's 2018 photobook Human Wrongs, a six-year project that documented life inside Philippine detention centers. File photograph: Rick Rocamora
The lone exceptions are the jails in Northern Mindanao, where the courts are issuing commitment orders that send detainees to jails. The risks, however, are not just that the prisoners will infect each other. Eventually, jail and prison officers will have to go home, take a rest, and recharge. When that happens, corrections staff will be exposed to the coronavirus and risk infecting the prisoners when they return. As one jail official told Narag, “One miss, we all die.”
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