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Freedom and Death Inside The Jail
non-officers, and officers through changes in the programs of
instruction at the Jail National Training Institute.
Insofar as the BJMP-related matters are concerned, Freedom
and Death Inside the City Jail is largely objective and impersonal
in spite of Mr. Narag being once an inmate in Quezon City Jail
for seven years. We owe him gratitude for bringing to light our
predicaments, which we have been trying to address for years
now. He is able to show that the sad conditions prevailing in the
jails, particularly among inmates, is not entirely blamable on the
BJMP but mostly on the inadequacies which are not of its own
making. I find it noteworthy that Mr. Narag has observed that the
BJMP is one of the least supported agencies of the government
which explains our inability to adequately attend to the basic
needs of inmates.