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E-service for Inmates in Philippine City

Online chat facility allowing inmates in Phillippnes.

Philippines' most populous Quezon City, has unveiled an online chat facility allowing inmates to get virtually in touch with their relatives in far areas. The programme also aims to curb drug or weapons smuggling in the jail.

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Launched by the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology and the Office of the Solicitor General (OSG), the e-dalaw (visit) project allows the inmates to talk to their love ones via the free video chat application


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