The women detainees in Camp Karingal treated Kara Lenina Taggaoa kindly during her brief stay on October 11, saying they would act as her mothers.
Taggaoa recalled how the older detainees calmed her as she sobbed. Their stories and encouragement helped her get through the ordeal.
On Sunday, October 16, Kara launched a P25 donation drive for the female detainees in Camp Karingal. Donations in kind, particularly food items and toiletries, are also welcome. The donation drive will end on October 21.Taggaoa said she only spent three hours with the inmates. But in those moments, she learned about their plight.
“The health situation inside the facility is in a dire state. It is too crowded, without proper ventilation,” she said. She learned from their stories that most of them are ordinary people facing “petty” crimes, like collecting“In one day, I experienced how rotten the Philippine justice system is, getting arrested without a warrant for a trumped-up charge, and once detained, experienced the sorry state of detention facilities,” Taggaoa said.She never received a subpoena from the Prosecutor’s Office for the complaints.
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