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Time to reform parole system
Oped, Editorial, Published on 20/03/2022
» The Ministry of Justice should have been praised for its policy for pardoning prisoners. Yet the way it has managed the pardon system only invites more questions which have backfired on the noble policy.
Clear air on pardons
Oped, Editorial, Published on 10/02/2022
» Early this week, a corruption watchdog urged the government to explain the Ministry of Justice's criteria in pardoning "big fish" -- referring to convicts in major corruption cases, many of whom recently had their jail terms substantially reduced.
Mass parole no solution
Oped, Editorial, Published on 20/05/2021
» The rapid Covid-19 transmission in state prisons, like any cluster infections in Thailand, might have been expected.
Unburden deathtrap jails
Oped, Editorial, Published on 01/04/2020
» The risk is obvious. There are 377,000 prisoners across the country jam-packed in prisons built to accommodate no more than 250,000 inmates. This overcrowding has resulted in each inmate having a space of less than one square metre in which to sleep.
Baby steps in jail reform
News, Editorial, Published on 30/01/2020
» The government's move to ease overcrowding in prisons, albeit a long-overdue mission, is praiseworthy.
Penal system gets it wrong
News, Editorial, Published on 19/12/2019
» The case of "Thailand's Jack the Ripper", a paroled serial killer arrested on Wednesday while attempting to escape his latest alleged sex and murder crime, demonstrates a serious loophole in a criminal justice process that cannot effectively prevent re-offending.
Time to stop the torture
News, Editorial, Published on 25/04/2018
» Two horror stories from the justice system point once again the urgent need for intervention and reform. Two men are dead in separate incidents. Corrections officials admit that a prisoner in the Samut Prakan Central Prison was horrifically beaten in a "discipline session" shortly before his death was reported. In Buri Ram, meanwhile, a man arrested for poaching -- and denied bail -- died from what medical examiners said were spleen injuries and "massive" blood loss.