Inmate dead on arrival in hospital after violence in Makati jail

An inmate who was rushed to the hospital on Wednesday afternoon following the violent dispersal of protesting prisoners at the Makati City Jail was pronounced dead on arrival.

A report by Mark Salazar on Balitanghali said although Arnold Marabe's family knows that he was a tubercolosis patient, they do not believe that it was the cause of his death as claimed by the police.

The report said Marabe's sister, Annabel Espinosa, showed GMA News photos of the bruises and wounds her brother supposedly sustained from the beatings he took from the police.

But according to the police, the wounds and bruises were due to the stampede that happened when they started hosing down the prisoners conducting a noise barrage.

A total of 29 people were injured in the incident. A video showed policemen hitting inmates one by one as they tried to restore order in the facility.

The inmates reportedly conducted the noise barrage to protest the harsh living condition inside the jail.

Espinosa said they already filed a complaint before the mayor’s office to investigate the death of her brother and the harsh living conditions inside the facility.

She said she herself was a witness in the living conditions inside the jail, adding her brother's tuberculosis worsened in seven years because the jail management has not provided him with a doctor.

Meanwhile, the Bureau of Jail Management and Penelogy, the Makati City government and the Commission on Human Rights are now investigating the incident. —Kiersnerr Gerwin Tacadena/KBK, GMA News