Super security prison to be established in Thailand

The country’s first super maximum security facility will be located in the Khlong Phai area of Nakhon Ratchasima’s Sikhiu district.

The Corrections Department touts the project as a silver bullet to combat drug dealings inside prisons.

Suchart Wonganantachai, director-general of the department, said 60 per cent of the 1,000 high-profile drug-related convicts rounded up from around the country would be accommodated in solitary cells.

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