Uploaded July 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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*First Broadcast in the UK on April 1st 2025.*

Filipino prisons are some of the most overcrowded in the world. I spent a day with inmates in Manila and learned some surprising truths about what prison gang culture is really like.

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