The Philippines’ war on drugs threatens to overwhelm packed jails

Mario Dimaculangan shares a toilet with 130 other inmates in one of the Philippines’ most overcrowded jails, and conditions are getting worse as police wage an unprecedented war on crime.
Security forces have killed hundreds of people and detained thousands more in the month since president Rodrigo Duterte said the top priority at the start of his six-year term was to eliminate drugs in society.
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