Adventures of Isabel

Prisoners in an overcrowded cell, La Trinindad Prison, Benguet
I’m usually pretty well insulated from the latest internet sensations, but given my interest in prisons and prisoners in the Philippines, friends have seen fit to alert me to the youtube phenomenon of the dancing inmates of Cebu jail.[For those even more clueless than I am: a [...]

This page was getting a bit text heavy, so here’s a recent self-portrait of me not working on grad school applications… I actually wrote a very long post last week, only to have it disappear when my computer crashed (a problem which has become increasingly frequent and disturbing).In any case, there’s not a great deal [...]

Back in Manila once again, this time after a trip up north to the cordilleras. It was definitely the most beautiful part of the Philippines I’ve seen so far, but that experience was totally overshadowed by interviewing political prisoners in benguet province. I’ve been working on transcribing and translating horror stories of torture [...]