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Different to gangs in any other country Cherry? Your thoughts?

Cheers, Steve.

Different to gangs in any other country Cherry? Your thoughts?
Cheers, Steve. - @bigpearl

I think so although Ashley Cain did sit down and speak in a meeting to several gang members who admitted that they had killed people and dealt out beatings and were protective of their turf and there were several guns and other weapons on display. From the documentary there seems to be different factions of the same gang and a lot of them seem to have given up drug dealing and a lot of other serious crimes because of Rodrigo Duterte's war on drug dealers and users. The gang members in the cemetery for example tend to the graves and bury the bones of the dead who's relatives have not paid. Apparently the dead are only guaranteed 5 years at rest without further payment.

Certainly the life of the gang members in prison shown in the documentary seems to show a peaceful existence and is different from what I have seen in documentaries about prison life in the UK where there is more violence and rival gangs are always clashing often using extreme violence.

In short there are what I would call traditional gang members who are prepared to use violence to achieve their aims but there are also other factions who just want peace and to earn money without resorting to violence.

@Cherryann01

I saw this documentary I think on BBC 3 suitably sanitized for the Gen Z demographic. Don’t want ‘Auntie ‘to upset them too much do we? Ashley Cain trying to look ‘hard’ with the shaved head and long beard. I bet the majority of viewers thought he looked ‘street cred’

I thought the prison in question was Bilibid in Manila which was featured on a more incisive Channel 5 documentary series ‘Banged Up Abroad’’ a couple of years back.

Bilibid has worse overcrowding than just about any other prison in the world on an inmate/ space/ facility basis. Worse than any Brazilian prison.

As an aside, I was told by someone who ought to know that Filipinos in the US prison system are welcome in the Aryan Brotherhood, an ultra-violent prison gang otherwise restricted to Caucasians. This is due to Filipinos being respected as reliable gang members and strong historical US/Philippines ties. A little bit of diversity in the prison racial gang system

@Cherryann01I saw this documentary I think on BBC 3 suitably sanitized for the Gen Z demographic. Don’t want ‘Auntie ‘to upset them too much do we? Ashley Cain trying to look ‘hard’ with the shaved head and long beard. I bet the majority of viewers thought he looked ‘street cred’I thought the prison in question was Bilibid in Manila which was featured on a more incisive Channel 5 documentary series ‘Banged Up Abroad’’ a couple of years back. Bilibid has worse overcrowding than just about any other prison in the world on an inmate/ space/ facility basis. Worse than any Brazilian prison. - @Lotus Eater

Agreed- Ross Kemp's documentaries on Drugs and Gangs were much more enjoyable to watch and he looked harder than Ashley Cain. I also love watching Banged Up Abroad even though most episodes feature people who get caught trying to smuggle drugs. There were exceptions to the drugs though and the episode about a guy working in Iraq during the Gulf War who was used has a human shield with others was good TV and he was just an innocent guy in the wrong place at the wrong time. I am surprised that Jeremy Wade (River Monsters) never got into any serious trouble while filming in some of the most dangerous places in the world.

I saw Ashley Cain's documentary on the BBC iPlayer and there are other episodes available, one about gangs in Sweden I believe.