{"id":18275,"date":"2020-05-16T09:40:06","date_gmt":"2020-05-16T00:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/16\/people-come-out-worse-my-time-inside-fijis-broken-prison-system"},"modified":"2020-05-16T09:40:06","modified_gmt":"2020-05-16T00:40:06","slug":"people-come-out-worse-my-time-inside-fijis-broken-prison-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=18275","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;People come out worse&#8217;: my time inside Fiji&#8217;s broken prison system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jagath Karunaratne, the president of the opposition Freedom Alliance Party, spent four months in Suva prison on sedition charges<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/16\/ex-officers-accuse-fijis-prison-commissioner-of-ordering-staff-to-beat-inmates\">\u2018Take him down\u2019: ex-officers accuse Fiji\u2019s prison commissioner of ordering staff to beat inmates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>When Jagath Karunaratne was first taken into custody at Fiji\u2019s largest prison, he was held in a small, concrete cell. Normally, he says, prisoners are held here for a night while their more permanent dormitory accommodation is organised. But Karunaratne alleges he was was held there for a month.<\/p>\n<p>In the cell block he says he had no bed, no bedding except a scratchy sheet, and was given a bucket to use for a toilet. He claims he was allowed to empty this once a day and every night was forced to sleep next to his own excrement.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/16\/people-come-out-worse-my-time-inside-fijis-broken-prison-system\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jagath Karunaratne, the president of the opposition Freedom Alliance Party, spent four months in Suva prison on sedition charges\u2018Take him down\u2019: ex-officers accuse Fiji\u2019s prison commissioner of ordering staff to beat inmatesWhen Jagath Karunaratne was &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1310,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,436,874,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-fiji","category-pacific-islands","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1310"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18275"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18276,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18275\/revisions\/18276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}