A video clip posted on YouTube showing a Western inmate at Bang Khwang maximum-security prison doing drugs and telling stories about how he and other inmates are able to freely use the Internet and make phone calls is genuine, Corrections Department director general Suchart Wonganantachai said yesterday. He said the inmate in question was an […]
The provincial police of Thailand and the Anti-Money Laundering Office have issued arrest warrants for 23 suspects who may be tied in with drug-related money, after officers raided a house in Pathum Thani last month and seized more than a billion baht in meth. Officers arrested Nipon Kanchart, a dealer for Peerayut Patsakol who is […]
BANGKOK, Feb 3 – Much drug apparatus, many mobile phones, SIM cards, and quantities of cash were found stashed in varied locations in the capital’s Bang Kwang Central Prison following a search operation conducted as part of an effort to crack down on drug syndicates. More than 400 personnel from the Departments of Corrections, Provincial […]
A large number of drug convicts incarcerated at Bangkok’s Bang Kwang maximum-security prison will soon be transferred to Khao Bin prison in Ratchaburi as part of an effort to clamp down on drug dealing inside jails, the Corrections Department said yesterday. Inmates serving time for drug convictions at other major prisons including Bangkok’s Klong Prem […]
NONTHABURI, Oct 26 – Thailand’s Corrections Department on Wednesday said 17 busloads of 617 convicted prison inmates with serious offences, including condemned prisoners, are being moved from Bang Kwang Prison in Nonthaburi as rising floodwater is threatening the maximum security prison. Police, commandos, and corrections officials are guarding a throng of security buses going in […]
