SONGKHLA: A man released from prison only two days previously ran in front of a freight train and was killed, in Hat Yai district on Sunday evening, police said. Pol Capt Suchart Kaewrat, a duty officer, said the incident occurred about 5.45pm about 300 metres from Hat Yai railway station. Full story: Bangkok Post Assawin […]
A field hospital has been set up in Zone 6 of the Chiang Mai prison after 144 new prisoners and two officials were found to have been infected with Covid-19, Corrections Department director-general Aryut Sinthoppan said on Monday. Mr Aryut said the new infections were detected between April 12-22 while new prisoners were put in […]
The Corrections Department has suspended visits to prisoners and detainees in all prisons, from Monday until May 5th, after over 100 prisoners and prison officials in Narathiwat and Surat Thani provinces were found to be infected with COVID-19. The department has also imposed other measures to prevent the spread of the virus. No prisoners will […]
SURAT THANI: A couple who had escaped police custody in this southern province were arrested in Nong Khai on Wednesday after travelling more than a thousand kilometres on three stolen motorcycles. Pol Maj Thepsingha Thepluen, the chief investigator of Tha Chang police station, said Patikarn Thongnongsuan and his wife, Kannikar Riewthongchum, were apprehended on Wednesday […]
Health investigators have been looking into how a Thai prisoner was infected with the G strain of COVID-19, the same strain which is now spreading worldwide. Director-General of the Medical Science Department, Dr. Opas Karnkawinpong, told the media on Friday that the G strain is the one found among infected returnees from abroad in state […]
Health authorities remained stumped on Friday regarding the source of the infection of a 37-year-old male prison inmate who tested positive for Covid-19 shortly after being sent to jail. Revealed on Thursday, the case ended the country’s 100-day streak without any new local infections. Full story: Bangkok Post BANGKOK POST REPORTERS
The injection of a hormone to reduce the sex drive of convicted sex offenders was debated at length in Thailand’s House of Representatives on Wednesday, following the presentation of a report on the prevention of rape and other sexual offences by a House committee. The other proposal in the report calls for the mandatory collection […]
RAYONG(NNT) – The Justice Minister, Somsak Thepsuthin, has launched a tourism project, aimed at giving prison inmates the opportunity to return to society, while indicating that many prisons are located on tourism routes. Mr. Somsak yesterday visited Khao Mai Kaeo Temporary Prison and Hueypong Open Institution in Rayong province to launch the project under the […]
