THAILAND

Overwhelming odds get better of efforts to stamp out prison drug trade

Spectrum, Piyaporn Wongruang, Published on 09/09/2012

» In the early morning of Aug 18, Nakhon Si Thammarat prison warder Od Sae Pua was shot dead on the way home from the prison where he worked for years. The reason was simply that he had refused to help smuggle drugs into the prison and that he reported the attempt to bribe him to do so to his bosses.