A boost for the penal system

Best selling author Dan Brown got it wrong. It is not the capital city of Manila that is the gates of hell.

The true gates of hell—perhaps even hell on earth itself—would have to be the country’s network of jails and prisons where minors are thrown in alongside adults, hygienic practices non-existent, inmates regularly under fed, and worst of all, where the innocent and the first offenders share the same space as hardened habitual criminals.