Established by the Americans in 1904 to supply food to other prisons all over the country, Iwahig has since become synonymous to finely handcrafted bags and other local souvenir items such as bags, fabrics, keychains, magnets, among others. In the prison without walls, inmates tend vast rice fields and share their talents to the visitors thru their modern dances and arts, and instead of idly spending time behind bars.