Behind Bars: South Cotabato Jail, Philippines | World’s Toughest Prisons | Free Documentary

Behind Bars Season 2 - Episode 2: South Cotabato Jail, Philippines | Prison Documentary Banged Up: My Story - Toughest Stories from Behind Bars: Note: This is a reupload. Due to the episode’s subject matter we had to make some adjustments to make the video available on YouTube. Behind Bars: South Cotabato Jail. One of the most overcrowded prisons in the world. Murderers, rapists, and drug dealers. The guilty and the innocent. All are behind bars together. In a jail designed for 600 prisoners, more than 2000 inmates are crammed into cells the size of shoe boxes. The prison is bursting at the seems, and there is no hope of improvement. For the inmates have not even been convicted. Thanks to President Duterte’s war on drugs, the Filipino justice system is totally overwhelmed. Instead of only putting those convicted behind bars, thousands of accused individuals are forced to await a verdict together in inhuman conditions: cramped space, tropical heat, insuffi
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