Inside The Largest Women's Prison in the Philippines | Free Doc Bites

Inside The Toughest Philippines Prison | Short Documentary
The "Correctional Institution for Women" is the oldest and largest women's prison in the Philippines, founded in nineteen thirty-one. Designed for one thousand PDLs - "persons deprived of liberty" - today there are about three times as many. Prisoners range from petty criminals to drug dealers, from murderers to gang members. The guards are outnumbered. Your best bet at keeping prisoners under control: Strict rules that everyone must adhere to. Over and over again there are checks, to ensure no one has managed to escape. One hundred percent security is impossible! The inmates are allowed to deal with tools, gas-cannisters and knives. All potentially lethal weapons.
"The bedrooms and living quarters, the so-called "dorms", are spread over several buildings. Among the inmates are also so-called ‚High Value‘ PDL's‘. A huge compound, full of hardened criminals. In a jail where just a few dozen correction officers watch over several thousand prisoners, who roam freely during the day. For keeping control, the guards even work together with privileged inmates, that are allowed to punish the other ones.
This episode of Behind Bars tells not only his story, but also that of the inmates, and the environment of the prison and shows in impressive pictures how life behind bars works.
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[@coreyricch6109]

I'm a guard in a jail and I do believe some people are innocent.

[@rianweston-dodds6247]

For sure, lots are

[@MedalsandKeys]

I have been locked up in jail, and prison and I also know that there was a small percentage of people who truly I believe were innocent.

[@ronaldohajong6780]

As fellow prison guard I agree but like only a few

[@sheilal.7284]

I was arrested for printing and writing bad checks. My bond was $75,000. The detectives went to ONLY 1 of the businesses where a check was cashed at and the cashier was shown my picture and agreed that I was the one that cashed the check. Well , I DIDN’T !!!! It ended up costing me $7500 for the best lawyer in town because they refused to do their job and prove that I was not the one cashing the checks they were just using my name and ID. I almost went to prison for four years because of this. Can you imagine how that felt? Sitting in jail with a ridiculously high bond for something you had no clue was even happening until they came to your front door to arrest you in front of your neighbors and family. The detectives don’t do their job because they don’t really care. Out of the over 20 places where checks were cashed, they only went to 1 place to get someone to confirm that I looked like the person who cashed the checks. They were offering me a little over four years in prison, and there was nothing I could do about it. The public defender (public pretender) kept trying to get me to take the four years so that’s why I had to hire my own attorney. Almost lost my job too

[@000MV]

You’re a good man

[@BrainMonkeyBooks]

Overcrowding, corruption, unsafe. Typical prison setting. Very sad.

[@michaelshive6748]

"Everyone is equal under the law" unless you're rich. Also, a lot of people are falsely accused, so not everyone in jail is an actual criminal.

[@BenLeeBl]

They live like in boarding school the difference is space

[@bryanperalta740]

Well this what the 30M Filipinos wanted so....

[@wl84728aahdjx]

this prison is unique, there are shops and bakeries inside, there are also makeups for sale lol 🤣🤣

[@Guttalifelive2]

The justice system isn’t perfect. So there are always innocent people in prison.

[@aloyd6157]

some are politics

[@patestrella7131]

Government officials, stop corruption & wake up.

[@daisycruz1765]

there is a saying that Not all in jails are criminals and not all criminals are in jail that proves that the judicial system in the Philippines is very poor

[@giosuegenovese313]

What Judiciary system??

[@patreimer7696]

Debbie speaks English with a Filipino accent.

[@jakel3424]

She's hot.

[@Its_Me_Romano]

She lost her African accent such a shame

[@torianderson5203]

Sounds South African to me

[@user-xe9hy3xe5q]

coz shes been in the philippines for a decade or more

[@firestara4830]

Coz it is not Debbie, it is a Filipina "playing" Debbie. Debbie is black

[@michaeldeglory777]

These guards are just evil people. There are lots of innocent people in Jail

[@jarrelleandersola508]

Well that's not the guards fault or the entire prisons fault. Check her records on why she got arrested and get angry at that.

[@Pilipina_1993]

Law is not equal for the poor and rich. Most of the time, rich people can buy the law and let the innocent people suffer. Sad reality

[@lymf9157]

When you realized the prison have market, bakeshops, stores, etc... 😅 After watching the whole documentations 😅

[@sgtjoe2008]

you'll be surprised at the older men's prison during the past govt administrations, before the reform they had it all, business shops, own rooms with comfort amenities like air conditioning...etc, jacuzzi for the gang leaders, guns, knives, meth lab where they earn way more than guards, prison wardens so it's easy for them to bribe guards and other prison officials. they have concerts where they can invite local entertainers to perform, prostitutes, alchohol, they even make music videos and sell singles and no one wears prison uniform...it's like they're not in prison but living inside a small town. but when leadership changed, all their happy years are all gone.

[@kilowatt6209]

Bruh this is a town, not a prison 😂

[@muhammadjunaidibinismail4385]

Terbaik suatu hari nanti

[@mikejohnson3601]

So many people especially woman in prison these days

[@doneown503]

, so I DO have Hope (?).😮

[@leetraviusmckay314]

They have to share a bed 😫

[@Fat12219]

Hot n humility 😂

[@irvingg.1437]

This facility seems nuts

[@allandio2676]

Nuts??how ??its better compare to south american prisons.

[@AAV27]

When debbie get out? I’ll be there.

[@patreimer7696]

You along with thousands of other guys, and probably girls too. 😍

[@jakel3424]

She's marriage material

[@sgtjoe2008]

if you can wait about 20 years more.

[@alexanders4911]

Me too ❤

[@alanguages]

Her actual family and News will first. She will become a mini celebrity. Her drug dealing boyfriend will likely contact her, to see if they can get back together, so he can get her to try smuggling again.

[@BonjoVee6161]

Pati sa Thailand prison may South African din nakakulong. A 23 year old South African woman serving a long prison sentence for drug trafficking wrote an eloquent letter offering a glimpse into how it feels to be locked away in Thailand. Ashley Oosthuizen was found guilty of international drug trafficking after she signed for a package containing MDMA at the restaurant she worked at in Koh Samui, ‘Hot in the Biscuit,’ in late 2020.

[@firestara4830]

Ashley was set up by her American conspiracy nut sociopathic boyfriend. She should be free he should be in prison

[@Fat12219]

It over for some of those ladies 😢

[@BigBangTheoryIsALie]

Debbie is so beautiful. She'll be the next target of Major now 😂😅

[@toriahmyworld]

Wow! You're so everywhere spreading false information. I wonder what satisfaction do you get from it? You don't have trust to gov't and here you are spreading lies, after lie. You are as cruel as the gov't you hate.

[@Mabu_T_Lusse]

He name is actually DeBee but they said debbie

[@jajskfmaalksnf3568]

what is her full name?

[@Nilkantha_Baul]

Everybody is "innocent" in the prison.

[@breveth]

There will always be innocent people in prison. In the US, between 5 and 10 percent of the prison population are completely innocent.

[@MrMayhem-yo2wh]

@@brevethwrong.

[@GurfatehSinghDharmapala]

​@@MrMayhem-yo2whCorrect.

[@MrMayhem-yo2wh]

@@GurfatehSinghDharmapala wrong.

[@GurfatehSinghDharmapala]

@@MrMayhem-yo2wh Correct.

[@angelmarwa443]

The South African girl speaks in a Philippine accent

[@piaaadah]

That's a Filipino accent 😂

[@RealtalkManc]

That’s a typical accent for the Philippines

[@SiyandaCarl]

A number of young South African girls have been captured in Asian countries for trafficking, one black lady was caught with huge dreadlocks that were stuffed with drugs from South America, I think China is the country where she captured, the truth is that some people just want short-cuts in life, they deserve to be caught. We are all human, and we all have struggles but that doesn't give us the right to destroy other families' lives by selling/transporting drugs and being involved in any other criminal activities. I say this as a South African, Myself.

[@angelmarwa443]

@@SiyandaCarl I agree with you. I remember the story of that lady with the dreadlocks, I felt sad for her because I know life can get hard in SA, but I feel bad for the people that lose their lives to drugs and their families, so yeah, she and many others deserve to get caught

[@Sarahkrisha0980]

​@@angelmarwa443lol

[@MilaIncomio]

Good evening, please help yourself to go out in that jail

[@MilaIncomio]

Its too hard when there is family and put inside without notice to them,its better to put them outside and to them to have a job,

[@adjeiboateng6720]

2:53 , what a miserable life. They should be showing these videos on national TV so others desist from committing crimes.

[@jimmyhenderson9761]

reminds me of the USA

[@kapawtaw]

That is a very comfortable prison in asian standard. The utopia of prisons

[@mphommopi3728]

This ain’t no prison. That’s a compound that you can’t leave

[@Fat12219]

Can't leave 😮

[@ercerc8384]

If you do crime you deserve good time in Prison. But this prison is like a school for adults. Every crime has a victim so the gotta pay hard for it.

[@mirarosemadani]

alam nyo ba na mas ok pa ang jail ng mga babae natin dto sa pinas i kompara musa jail ng mga babae sa africa talagang kalunus lunus at sa egypt din grabe kahit toilet ay wala talaga talagang sa jail palang matindi na talaga ang parusa sa kanila maaawa ka talaga..

[@MsRobmart]

Prang nag bording house lang mg prisons at kumpleto pa may mga tindahan din. Prang nasa bahay lang at may sugalan pa .nice 😅😂

[@John-pe7nf]

Cat mask girl i can fix her

[@MilaIncomio]

Help them to become a workers of Shoppee

[@jakel3424]

Debbie is a catch. 😂

[@nikiyen6]

A catch who was caught

[@kinghenry3693]

I can save her

[@SiyandaCarl]

​@@kinghenry3693 Simp. 🤦🏾‍♂️

[@benevybrijose5943]

@@kinghenry3693 Please do so

[@bryanperalta740]

WHat's Debbie's accent she doesn't sound Afrikaans.

[@birungichrisp6944]

Not the right place for these hopefully they find peace in controlling the ego and greed the world is enough for all of us.

[@SiyandaCarl]

A number of young South African girls have been captured in Asian countries for trafficking, one black lady was caught with huge dreadlocks that were stuffed with drugs from South America, I think China is the country where she captured, the truth is that some people just want short-cuts in life, they deserve to be caught. We are all human, and we all have struggles but that doesn't give us the right to destroy other families' lives by selling/transporting drugs and being involved in any other criminal activities. I say this as a South African, Myself.

[@LindyRahman]

Philippines is most one country is very coraption money 🤑 political coraption money 🤑🤑

[@user-rr7ll9qq2t]

They should do lie detector

[@Krahmhil86]

Hindi organized ano ba Yan Wala manlang nag iisip karamihan sa atin para maimprove halos lahat Ng department may mapapansin ka talaga na Hindi maayos,sa structures palang Wala na sa ayos

[@kevintucker3354]

They sure eat well!

[@Dia17DpoVNa]

7:54 Какая Дэбби красотка и уже так долго за глупость сидит 😢 Надеюсь у нее все будет хорошо

[@emnd4540]

Beauty or not doesn’t matter a crime is a crime and she has to pay the price. Smuggling drugs is not a simple crime.

[@Cowboy_from_west]

​​@@emnd4540But 9 years come on, she's 23 when she got jailed in a foreign country, that's hard

[@jesssocountry334]

That guard smart mouth ssa…. She’ll get beat here

[@stevebell4906]

Ya of course.... And you ride a Unicorn to work too!

[@MilaIncomio]

I want to help you to have job

[@HarryMonn]

Does not look that bad tbh

[@xm47ecr36]

i bet i can go to philippines and pick me a wife from the prison

[@SA-zr9nu]

Debbie is finee

[@giosuegenovese313]

Philippines is known if you domt have Money you are guilty.. The Justice is horrible or not really there. You have money or are connected you are innocent always. All the poverty there and corruption is Horrible. A few years ago 30+ police officers were caught selling tons of meth/shabu and nothing happens but if a normal citizen talks about it ooh prison with charges. Poor country with Politicians making billions a year and corporations stealing indigenous peoples lands building Hotels and destroying national areas. Those same major corporations or land management companies have hired armed men threatening locals. And nothing happens to the corporations because they pay for innocence.. people wake up un alive and the land corporation come in and steal the land. You have money you are untouchable.. Poor you are in prison

[@jastnatur]

Its 2023 you think i get can locked up in this female prison lol i dnt mind sharing beds

[@agaphmouesu]

Ayo

[@jenniferlee5466]

😂😂😂

[@Wigington24]

What a waste of good labor I'd rather see them get the work then China

[@gosho1965]

Sucks u gotta share a bed

[@jackiebaker5530]

Why are they all wearing a mask

[@maurymaurice9280]

This was likely recorded at the height of the pandemic

[@reetarochelle]

Compared to American women in prison. I'm sure they're all innocent.

[@reesemorgan545]

Think Brittany Griner needs to watch this Documentary. Still Blows my mind how she got Traded for a Terrorist! Atleast coulda traded the United States Marine instead of some Drug smuggling woman.

[@alistarrgalaxson5198]

She literally had a personal weed pen. It’s nothing like these other women💀

[@reesemorgan545]

Well Like the documentary explained.. Different countries have different Laws on everything. And if you’re gonna live somewhere you gotta live by their laws/Rules. She broke the law. Plain and simple

[@jeffersonlee2582]

If someone can give me Debbie's, from South Africa, last name and/or inmate number please send me this information here. I have plenty of political and legal connections and would like to help her out. There are numerous other drug smuggling cases in nearby Asian countries, as well. These incidents all involved naive, young ladies in their early 20's, that trusted their so-called boyfriends and got caught, like Debbie's case. However, these women from England, and Australia only end up serving about 4-4 1/2 years, which is already half the time that Debbie has spent in prison. Although Debbie made a mistake, she has kept a very good attitude, has plenty of potential and deserves a 2nd chance. For example, one of the English former female prisoners went on to graduate from Oxford University and does public service to prevent others from making the same mistakes. jefferson lee-las vegas

[@Bomer-Bomer]

the white girl still contact by her family? no matter how look at it , she's just innocent! imagine she was 32-9 years! she's 23 at that time! i bet she's just a tourist that get scammed by someone and end became a mule without her knowledge! i hope her family still contact her.

[@serbonkers4130]

From Dubai?! Come on now. She had almost 20 pounds of pure coke on her when she got caught. Dont get fooled by her looks bro. Anyway she probably out now coz her sentence was 10 yrs

[@contactcontact9915]

Explain to me how is she innocent. She made these choices so where does innonance come in at.

[@Bomer-Bomer]

@@serbonkers4130Dude, their's no idio''t wanted became a mule of a syndicate group at the age of 23 and; she's not even poor to begin with. Her scenario is the same as those OFW: first they land in a foreign land where their employer will meet them, but they end up meeting a syndicate. How can you get out? when you don't have money? when your passport was taken? when you're at the home of the syndicate? You're totally a trap, lol!! What will you do?! action mode? fight them with your kungfu? and escape?! funny imagination?!! And if you use your head, the syndicate won't risk shipping their items; they always use an outsider who doesn't know them

[@Bomer-Bomer]

@@contactcontact9915 Dude, their's no idio''t wanted became a mule of a syndicate group at the age of 23 and; she's not even poor to begin with. Her scenario is the same as those OFW: first they land in a foreign land where their employer will meet them, but they end up meeting a syndicate. How can you get out? when you don't have money? when your passport was taken? when you're at the home of the syndicate? You're totally a trap, lol!! What will you do?! action mode? fight them with your kungfu? and escape?! funny imagination?!! And if you use your head, the syndicate won't risk shipping their items; they always use an outsider who doesn't know them

[@contactcontact9915]

@@Bomer-Bomer did the syndicate go to her house in her country and force her to work? Or did she hear something that sound like it was too good to be true and jumped on it? Whose fault is this

[@ravagesoyjoy]

During a zombie apocalypse, that's probably the safest place on earth 😅

[@karenmuha5761]

This is so crazy most of them shouldn't be there

[@zulu3770]

I can save her.... and you know who im talkin about 0_0

[@a.evelyn5498]

You’re competing with several other commenters. Better get that letter out to her asap or better yet get on that plane to the Philippines with enough stacks of cash to barter her way out.

[@br2266]

First female crying in interview: “it hurts, I don’t know why they put me in prison for murder, drug smuggling, and money laundering!”

[@mscardioqueen]

What are you talking about? When did the 1st woman confess to committing the crimes you're accusing her of? She said it was a neighbour dispute. She never says how she got caught up.

[@leetraviusmckay314]

​@@mscardioqueenfr tho 😂

[@canary7557]

@@mscardioqueenI was also confused 😂

[@IslanderloverBKK]

Making up stuff tsk tsk tsk!

[@MK-cq6gf]

You’re confusing her with the South African drug mule

[@Tarsal-oi4ts]

Bhai yeah jail hi hai na?? 😂😂😂