The staff of this prison in the Philippines are using library time and education to reform the prisoners.
Time spent in the library or studying will be counted towards “good behaviour” for the prisoners.
The programme is called Read Your Way Out, and has been cautiously welcomed by human rights activists - following years of violence in the so-called war on drugs launched by former President Rodrigo Duterte.

Al Jazeera’s Barnaby Lo reports from Davao, southern Philippines

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