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Inmates Learn How to Cook
In order to prepare inmates for the outside world, these inmates from Minburi prison were taught how to cook various different dishes.
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Prison flooded, inmates relocated
Floods have hit the Kabin Buri district of Prachin Buri province hard, forcing the relocation of 734 inmates at Kabin Buri prison as the water continues to rise. Somchai Premjai, the Kabin Buri prison...
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Tales from behind the bars
While millions of people log on to Facebook every day, those behind bars have absolutely no access to the world – virtual or otherwise. This subject was so close to one inmate’s heart that he decided...
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SA woman dies in Thai prison
The International Relations Department has confirmed a South African woman has died in a Thai prison hospital. The woman, who was caught as an alleged drug mule, passed away after a long illness last...
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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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Merit Making on 98th Anniversary of Corrections Department
Thonburi Remand Prison recently held a merit making event to mark the 98th anniversary of the Department of corrections. Three monks were invited to the prison and inmates were able to make merit by...
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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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Phuket prisoner electrocuted after trying to escape
An inmate from Phuket Prison was electrocuted during an escape attempt.
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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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Trailer for The Last Executioner
“The Last Executioner” is the story of the last person in Thailand whose job it was to execute by gun, a wild rock and roller who took a “respectable” job to support the family he loved devotedly and...
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A Thai Prison Cell
Photography is not normally allowed in prisons in Thailand. The only way we can get to see every day life in prisons is through pictures secretly taken on mobile phones and uploaded to social media....
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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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