'We don't need the death penalty': 20% of inmates die each year in Philippines jail

Prison hospital chief says about 5,200 die in Bilibid each year, mostly from infectious diseases

More than 5,000 inmates at a maximum security jail in the Philippines, or around 20% of all inmates, die each year, a Filipino prison hospital chief has claimed.

Ernesto Tamayo of the national Bilibid prison (NBP) in Muntinlupa, a few kilometres south of Manila, said that the “mortality rate is 20%” for the jail’s population of around 26,000, with most of the deaths occurring due to infectious diseases in overcrowded cells.

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