FILE: Philippines' Duterte warns ex-cons to turn themselves in More than a thousand ex-prisoners prematurely freed under a controversial law in the Philippines will be captured "dead or alive" if they do not surrender before a Thursday deadline, President Rodrigo Duterte said earlier this week. In Manila's Quezon City jail, built six decades ago for just 800 people, thousands of 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. FILE IMAGES OF QUEZON CITY JAIL IN MANILA.