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Photos reveal packed Quezon City Jail in the Philippines

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 just one month as they have followed the orders of President Rodrigo Duterte, who has said the top priority at the start of his six-year term is to eliminate drugs in society.

Those detained appear doomed for lengthy stints in an underfunded and overwhelmed penal system, like in the Quezon City Jail where Dimaculangan has wallowed for 14 years while his trial over murder and robbery charges has dragged on.

“Many go crazy. They cannot think straight. It’s so crowded. Just the slightest of movements and you bump into something or someone,” Dimaculangan told AFP in one of the jail’s packed hallways, which reeked of sweat.

There are 3,800 inmates at the jail, which was built six decades ago to house 800, and they engage in a relentless contest for space.

Men take turns to sleep on the cracked cement floor of an open-air basketball court, the steps of staircases, underneath beds and hammocks made out of old blankets. Even then, bodies are packed like sardines in a can, with inmates unable to fully stretch out.

When it rains, the conditions are even worse as inmates cannot sleep on the basketball court, which is surrounded by the cells in decaying concrete buildings up to four stories high.

The cash-strapped national government has a daily budget of just 50 pesos ($1.10) for food and five pesos (11 cents) for medicine per inmate, although with the bulk buying of supplies, Quezon City Jail detainees have a sustainable diet of soup, vegetables and meat.

Pails of water are used to flush the scarce toilets, with the stench compounded by the rotting garbage in a nearby canal. (Read more by Ayee Macaraig/AFP)

(Photographs by Noel Celis/AFP/Getty Images)

See more images from the jail on Yahoo News.

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Isaiah 60:1 Amplified Bible, Classic Edition (AMPC) 60 Arise [from the depression and prostration in which circumstances have kept you—rise to a new life]! Shine (be radiant with the glory of the Lord), for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord has risen upon you! (à Winam, Nyanza, Kenya) https://www.instagram.com/p/Br6qYwhAVCIvVqflO6CH1DtsnSJVd_RUMWUgVI0/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1njlz9fetnqh9

#Repost @robinsharma ・・・ Your #DailyKickstart: We create that which we fear. All behavior is a demonstration of our psychology. So get to work on acknowledging and then releasing your fears.

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#Repost @desiringgod ・・・ "Psalm 56:3 says, 'When I am afraid, I put my trust in you.' Notice: it does not say, 'I never struggle with fear.' Fear strikes, and the battle begins. So the Bible does not assume that true believers will have no anxieties. Instead the Bible tells us how to fight when they strike.⠀ ⠀ For example, 1 Peter 5:7 says, '[Cast] all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.' It does not say, you will never feel any anxieties. It says, when you have them, cast them on God. When the mud splatters your windshield and you temporarily lose sight of the road and start to swerve in anxiety, turn on your wipers and squirt your windshield washer.⠀ ⠀ So my response to the person who has to deal with feelings of anxiety every day is to say: that’s more or less normal. At least it is for me, ever since my teenage years. The issue is: How do we fight them?⠀ ⠀ The answer to that question is: we fight anxieties by fighting against unbelief and fighting for faith in future grace. And the way you fight this 'good fight' (1 Timothy 6:12; 2 Timothy 4:7) is by meditating on God’s assurances of future grace and by asking for the help of his Spirit.⠀ ⠀ The windshield wipers are the promises of God that clear away the mud of unbelief, and the windshield washer fluid is the help of the Holy Spirit. The battle to be freed from sin is fought 'by the Spirit and belief in the truth' (2 Thessalonians 2:13).⠀ ⠀ The work of the Spirit and the Word of truth. These are the great faith-builders. Without the softening work of the Holy Spirit, the wipers of the Word just scrape over the blinding clumps of unbelief.⠀ ⠀ Both are necessary: the Spirit and the Word. We read the promises of God and we pray for the help of his Spirit. And as the windshield clears so that we can see the welfare that God plans for us (Jeremiah 29:11), our faith grows stronger and the swerving of anxiety smooths out." Read more at desiringGod.org // Link in profile.⠀ ⠀ http://www.desiringgod.org/articles/how-to-fight-anxiety

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#Repost @robinsharma ・・・ The most selfless always wins. Even when it looks like they don't #Perspective