The initiative supported by the UN office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in the Philippines is also expected to help ease chronic overcrowding in detention centres across the Southeast Asian nation. Dave*, who is one month into a six-month sentence, spends up to eight hours a day in the library of the Iligan City Jail. He’s currently engrossed in a graphic novel called El Filibusterismo, an adaptation of a story by the revered Filipino intellectual and political activist José Rizal. “I like reading, especially historical fiction,” he told UN News…
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