As COVID-19 sweeps through many of the world's prisons and jails, the Philippine Supreme Court has ordered the release of nearly 10,000 inmates in one of the world's most congested prison systems.
Crowding has grown worse in recent weeks, as authorities arrested thousands for violating curfews and quarantines. The Philippines has reported more than 9,000 cases of COVID-19 and 637 deaths.have demanded that the Philippine government address the ventilation, hygiene and sanitation conditions in prisons that contribute to the spread of deadly infectious diseases like COVID-19.
"Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, we had already been receiving reports on the terrible conditions in the jails that made sickness a normal thing,"chairman of the Free Legal Assistance Group and the founding dean of Manila's De La Salle University Law School, tells NPR. Diokno says President Rodrigo Duterte's notorious war on drugs has swollen the prison population, and some inmates can wait years before going to trial.
are either awaiting trial or their next hearing, but Amnesty International says under international law,"imprisonment pending trial should be the exception, not the norm." Diokno says widespread judicial vacancies and in the prosecution service have helped extend backlogs and jail time.. Inmates told the group that since March 25, at least seven prisoners have died in the Quezon City Jail alone. HRW could not confirm whether the deaths were related to COVID-19, citing the"absence of testing in the facilities and the government's failure to report them.
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