Philippine crime war packs decaying jails In the Philippines, inmates pack jails as police wage an unprecedented war on crime. Three thousand eight hundred people are being held at the Quezon City jail in Manila, built six decades ago for just 800 people, and inmates take turns sleeping, trying to find room on the cracked cement floor of an open-air basketball court, the steps of staircases, underneath beds and hammocks made out of old blankets. IMAGES