Behind Bars: Philippines - CIW: Locked Up Ladies | World’s Toughest Prisons | Free Documentary

Behind Bars Season 3 - Episode 5: Mandaluyong City, CIW: Locked Up Ladies | 4K Prison Documentary Banged Up: My Story - Toughest Stories from Behind Bars: 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
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