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8,000 prisoners released to ease virus risk
Gary Boyle, Published on 15/04/2020
» The Department of Corrections has suspended jail sentences for more than 8,000 prisoners nationwide to ease overcrowding in prisons during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Thai prisons: Fall far short of world standards
Jon Fernquest, Published on 03/03/2017
» Thais most likely to land in jail on minor drug charges, get stuffed into crowded cell, work for 8 baht a day with guards abusing them.
Parole system: Courts must decide who is released early
Jon Fernquest, Published on 12/09/2016
» After early release of politically powerful influential figures, calls for courts, not prison officials, to make parole decisions.
Soaring prison population: Drug war rethink
Jon Fernquest, Published on 18/07/2016
» People jailed for drug convictions almost doubled over last decade, Klong Prem prison 64% drug offenses, but Drug War policy not working.
Drug kingpins continue crime business in prison
Jon Fernquest, Published on 01/09/2014
» Prisons are now drug dealing hubs run with family outside prison & mobile phones. Prison staff help & share in the profits.
Street racers to be electronically tagged
Terry Fredrickson, Published on 22/08/2013
» Some young street racers are to be kept at home away from trouble through the use of electronic tags starting this November.
Research on inhumane prison conditions
Jon Fernquest, Published on 01/06/2011
» "Thailand's prisons are the eighth-most crowded in the world"
Prison overcrowding
Jon Fernquest, Published on 03/12/2010
» A riot shook a prison north of Bangkok last month, overcrowding was the likely cause.