How do Prisoners live like kings in jail? How does that work? Who aids them?
According to ABC News:
A raid on the biggest jail in the Philippines has uncovered drug lords
"living like kings" in secret luxury cells with strip bars, sex dolls,
a jacuzzi and methamphetamines, the country's justice secretary says.
Police commandos in full battle armour and tracker dogs swooped down
on the infamously crowded Bilibid prison complex before dawn to verify
reports that drug rings were operated from behind bars.
Justice secretary Leila de Lima expressed shock at the outcome of Monday's raid.
She said aside from the methamphetamines, also known as ice, police
found 1.4 million pesos ($31,000) in cash, inflatable sex dolls, a
strip bar and a jacuzzi across 20 air-conditioned "villas".
"They are here to serve jail time but instead, they're living like
kings," she told reporters after the raid.
Ms de Lima said jail officials who conspired with the inmates would
face "outright dismissal".
One "villa" had a fully inflated sex doll sprawled on the bed, while
an adjacent room was equipped with an elevated platform, strobe lights
and a mirror ball, police said.
Police said the platform was for strippers who were smuggled into the
jail compound. A bright blue bra with feathers was hung beside the
stage.
Another area had a small concert stage equipped with a flat-screen
television, a drum set, guitars and keyboards.
A safe in one of the rooms contained Rolex and Patek Philippe watches,
Louis Vuitton wallets and stacks of dollar bills, police said.
Bathroom floors and walls were covered in marble tiles, showers with
hot water were encased in glass and a bathtub had a flat-screen
television attached to it.
One room was stocked with an expensive whiskey brand.
The luxury villas, for drugs lords, kidnap gang leaders and other
powerful inmates, were scattered around the sprawling 500-hectare
compound.
Cases of rich inmates bribing prison authorities and building small
houses, or simply leaving the jail, have emerged publicly repeatedly
over the years.
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Photo-credit: jacuzzi.it
