The Philippines’ Corruption-Ridden Prison System
A journalist’s murder shines a spotlight on a rotten, decades-old correctional regime
By: Viswa Nathan
The October 3 murder of the Philippine broadcast journalist Percival Mabasa—also known as Percy Lapid—by a motorcycle-borne assassin as Mabasa drove into his gated community, followed by the death of Cristito “Jun Villamor” Palaña, an inmate in the country’s high-security New Bilibid Prison, has yielded more than what the crimes were exp…
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