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Justice Ministry eyes 42 new prisons for Thailand
Justice Minister Chaikasem Nitisiri yesterday revealed a plan to seek Cabinet approval for a Bt30-billion budget to build 42 new prisons nationwide. In a bid to curb prison overcrowding, the ministry...
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Life behind bars in Bangkok’s notorious Klong Prem prison
Journalist and Muay Thai enthusiast James Goyder got a glimpse inside a notorious jail when he participated in a boxing match with one of the inmates. The popularity of behind-bars documentaries like...
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Justice Ministry proposes DNA tests for inmates
The Forensic Institute was instructed to conduct compulsory DNA checks for inmates and migrant workers nationwide. During his inspection trip to the institute yesterday, Justice Minister Chaikasem...
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Prison off hook over ‘Uncle SMS’ death
The 61-year-old grandfather, also known as ”Uncle SMS” because he was convicted of sending four short text messages deemed insulting to the monarchy to the then personal secretary of Democrat party...
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Freedom Fighters
It’s late summer in the emerald hills of Thailand’s Nakhon Ratchasima province, some 150 miles northeast of Bangkok. The sticky heat, common during this time of year, is even more stifling in the...
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Inmates conceal phones in stomach
Lampang prison officials were stunned to discover a prisoner had tried to conceal a mobile phone smuggled into the jail by swallowing it and carrying it in his stomach. Narong Juiset, director of...
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Remote chopper used to smuggle drugs
A remote-controlled helicopter was used to smuggle drugs and mobile phones into Khon Kaen Central Prison on Sunday. The aircraft flew over the walls of the jail and headed to Zone 2 in the early...
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600 Burmese released from Thai prisons
More than 600 Burmese prisoners have been released recently in Thailand, Burma’s Deputy Home Affairs Minister Brig-Gen Kyaw Zan Myint said in parliament on Friday. The deputy minister was speaking in...
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Electronic tags used on 39 criminals so far
The Department of Corrections made known that the recently introduced electronic monitoring tags have so far been used on 39 offenders. Over 200 monitoring tags have been sent to the department for...
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Academic says prisoners should be allowed to have sex
Prison inmates should be allowed to have sex with their wives or husbands twice a year, according to the author of an academic study into sex in Thai prisons. Siriwan Kraisurapong, a lecturer at...
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A joint team from the Nepali embassy in Thailand and the Non-Resident Nepalis Association in Thailand (NRNA-Thailand) has learnt about the condition of Nepalis serving jail terms in Thai prisons. The...
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British tourist, 46, was beaten to death in Thai prison
A British tourist accused of stealing a moped in Thailand was beaten to death in jail by a fellow inmate while in prison, an inquest has heard. Sean Flanagan died after a man allegedly jumped onto his...
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Panel probes prison death of inmate
A police investigation panel has been set up to look into a Bang Pong Pang police investigator and other officers involved in the arrest of a man who was mistakenly prosecuted under his cousin’s name...
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Klong Prem Central Prison searched
The search team comprised narcotic suppression police, soldiers and corrections department officials. Pol Col Chatree Paisalsilp, deputy commander of the Narcotic Suppression Bureau, and Prasert...
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Stop drug trade behind bars or resign, junta warns prison authorities
Top corrections Department officials should not continue in their posts if they fail to stop the drug trade in prisons, assistant Army chief General Paiboon Koomchaya said yesterday. Paiboon, who is...
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Behind bars: Thai women pay high price for drugs
Lured by easy money, an escape from poverty or family pressure, thousands of women are locked up for drug offences in Thailand, which has one of the world’s highest rates of female imprisonment. Mai,...
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Inmate dies after swallowing ‘ice’
An inmate at Klongpai Central Prison has died after 20 condoms filled with crystal methamphetamine, or “ice”, burst in his stomach, according to prison director Aree Chaloeysook. Mr Aree said the...
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Prison troublemakers face ‘supermax’ unit
Trouble-making inmates from across Thailand are being transferred to the country’s only jail with a “super-maximum” security facility. The Corrections Department also plans to set up three more...
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Phuket’s Bang Jo Prison declared ‘white’
An early morning raid of Bang Jo Prison turned up no drugs or contraband today. More than 90 officers, led by Phuket Prison Chief Rapin Nichanon, began the search at 5:30am. Each of the 68 inmates was...
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Rape Suspect Beaten to Death In Prison
A man accused of sexually assaulting his seven-year-old stepdaughter has been beaten to death in prison, police say, a day after he insisted he was innocent. Prasin Nunkaew, 41, was arrested yesterday...
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