{"id":3522,"date":"2015-01-14T18:02:11","date_gmt":"2015-01-14T18:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=3522"},"modified":"2015-01-14T18:02:11","modified_gmt":"2015-01-14T18:02:11","slug":"philippine-prison-vips-have-access-to-strippers-spas-and-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=3522","title":{"rendered":"Philippine prison \u2018VIPs\u2019 have access to strippers, spas and drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A RAID at the Philippines\u2019 main prison has uncovered drug lords \u201cliving like kings\u201d in luxury cells with stripper bars and jacuzzis. <!--more--><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The sex, drugs and bribery scandal has shocked a country inured to tales of official corruption.<\/p>\n<p>The revelations were headline news, a day after police commandos swooped on the infamously crowded national penitentiary complex to verify reports that drug rings were in operation from behind bars.<\/p>\n<p>Police found methamphetamine or \u201cice\u201d, cash, guns, inflatable sex dolls, a stripper bar and a jacuzzi spread across 20 air-conditioned \u201cvillas\u201d built for convicted drug dealers, according to Justice Secretary Leila de Lima.<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"2\" height=\"0\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s unfair that even after conviction, we\u2019re still not sure that justice has been served,\u201d added Teresita See, head of the Manila-based Movement for the Restoration of Peace and Order. <strong>(Rappler.com)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A RAID at the Philippines\u2019 main prison has uncovered drug lords \u201cliving like kings\u201d in luxury cells with stripper bars and jacuzzis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3522"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}