LOOK: Jail cell built for 20 has 69 inmates

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LOOK: Jail cell built for 20 has 69 inmates

April Rafales,

ABS-CBN News

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Sixty-nine inmates at the QCPD Station 3 try to fit inside a detention cell originally built for 20. April Rafales, ABS-CBN News

In the Philippines, detention cells are challenging the laws of physics that say no two objects can occupy the same space at the same time.

In Quezon City Police District Station 3, 69 inmates occupy a male detention cell originally built for 20.

About 80% of these detainees are facing charges connected to illegal drugs.

Some sleep while sitting or standing, and some take turns sleeping. How comfortable? Nobody knows.

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One can smell the stench of human sweat–multiplied by 69–a few meters from outside the station. And this is by no means an exaggeration.

The toilet is inside the cell and the inmates painstakingly wait for their turn to use it.

When it rains, the drainage gets clogged and the inmates have to endure the stench until it is addressed by the officers on duty.

But despite this living condition in some cells, the police said they cannot stop doing the job which they took an oath to perform. Rules need to be implemented and violators need to face consequences, including detention.

A jail is not a place for torture and punishment, but for rehabilitation and reformation,

Despite their sorry situation, most of the inmates said they remain hopeful that they would one day go home and start a better life– and a clean one, at that.

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