Reaction Paper - Behind Bars

BICOL COLLEGE
Cor. J.P. Rizal & R.F. Tabuena Sts.

Sagpon, Daraga, Albay, Philippines 4501
email address: [email protected]
INSTITUTIONAL CORRECTION
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Subject
MS. JINGKIE DEOCAREZA
Name of Professor
RENDOR, JAN DOME
Name of Student
2021-2022
BICOL COLLEGE
BEHIND BARS: SOUTH COTABATO JAIL, PHILIPPINES

WORLD’S TOUGHEST PRISON
Nowadays, lots of people right now are struggling in everyday life in the outside
world but we didn’t know lots of people are more struggling and has a more difficult time
just for passing and surviving their life inside the jails. There is a place in South Cotabato
that so many people sacrificing their lives just to survive in a day because of heavy
sacrifices of life behind those bars. They were treated like a slave with full of criminals
around you. This video documentary is the work of the group of “Free Documentary” in
YouTube. I salute them because of their fearless feeling to enter the jail with full of
criminals just to feel the ambiance and the struggle inside the jail.
This documentary was all about the world’s toughest prison in the Philippines, in
South Cotabato Jail. One of the most overcrowded prisons in the world. Murderers,
rapists, and drug dealers. The guilty and the innocent. All are behind bars together. In a
jail designed for 600 prisoners, more than 2000 inmates have been crammed into cells the
size of shoe boxes. The prison is bursting at the seams, and there is no hope of
improvement. The inmates have not even been convicted. Thanks to President Duterte’s
war on drugs, the Filipino justice system is totally overwhelmed. Instead of only putting
those convicted behind bars, thousands of accused individuals are forced to await a verdict
together in inhuman conditions cramped space, tropical heat, insufficient water, and,
worst of all, a jail that is ruled by the inmates. The guards can’t control the mass of
prisoners. As a result, the jail is dominated by hierarchies and power relations. Ronniel
Dumagit doesn’t yet know what awaits him inside those bars. He’s a newbie. It’s his first
time in jail. But faster than he’d like he’ll learn how the prison works, what the hierarchy
looks like, and how he has to behave in order to survive. It has one prisoner decides what
status and privileges each of the other inmates has inside the prison. They call him El
Presidente, Glecerio de Pedro, and his henchmen or also called marshals rule the prison.
The El Presidente has the authority because of his wealth. The guards are totally
outnumbered. They use surprise inspections to try to increase their authority, but they
can’t change the situation. Nor can they do anything about the daily struggle for survival,
for space, for air.
In my reaction to this documentary, the admission and custody was under control
by the BJMP or Bureau of Jail Management and Penology in South Cotabato. The control
of the prisoners inside the jail was also under control by the marshals and the El
Presidente the one who implemented the rules inside the jail. I realize that there is not
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much more difficult in the life of prisoners than life here outside the prison. Sometimes I
ask myself why am I here in this world full of problems and trials but I didn’t know that
there are more worst trials inside those bars. This real life struggle inside the cramped
inhuman box or also called prison makes me cry. It’s really hard to see people suffer this
way. Especially the guy who was named Janelle my eyes was in the teary eyes while his
sharing his life in video. You can feel the pain and suffer in his heart. He can’t see his
child because of his fault. The lesson that I’ve learned here is always to control your
emotions or anger, be grateful in life, don’t do drugs and the most especial thing treat your
family as your everything because we will always blame ourselves and we always ask
ourselves why we violate the law if we're behind those bars.

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BICOL COLLEGE

Cor. J.P. Rizal & R.F. Tabuena Sts.

MS. JINGKIE DEOCAREZA

RENDOR, JAN DOME

BEHIND BARS: SOUTH COTABATO JAIL, PHILIPPINES

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