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 […]
Banglamung Police arrested two suspected drug dealers in East and North Pattaya in the early hours of Saturday who appear to have been controlled by a prison inmate. Police Colonel Somnook announced the arrest of Khun Satit aged 31 following an undercover operation in North Pattaya. He was caught with 22.89g of Crystal Methamphetamine, commonly […]
Prime Minister of Thailand Yingluck Shinawatra today presided over a ceremony to release inmates at Bangkok’s Klong Prem Central Prison. The prime minister asked inmates who were bestowed royal pardon to be grateful to Their Majesties the King and Queen for their chance to re-enter society. She also urges them to adopt the royal philosophy […]
BANGKOK, Dec 4 – The annual royal pardon, put into effect on Sunday, the eve of His Majesty the King’s 84th birthday, will be applied to around 22,000 inmates. Corrections Department director-general Pol Col Suchart Wongananchai said that over 20,000 inmates would benefit from the royal pardon decree. About 12,000 prisoners will be immediately released […]
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 […]
PATTANI, Sept 5 – Rival groups of inmates rioted in Pattani provincial central prison Monday morning resulting in one prisoner dead and two others, including a Myanmar national, injured, according to Pattani deputy governor Lertkiat Wongphothipan. The dead man was a well-behaved prisoner who facilitated the work of the prison’s wardens. The two other injured […]
Kent Melmblom, 52, got heart problems when he was in Thailand and was hospitalized. So long that his tourist visa in Thailand run out. Then began the worst 12 days of his life. – I never thought that Thailand could be so dangerous, says Kent Melmblom. Kent Melmblom from Stockholm rented a house in the […]
NARATHIWAT, Aug 12 — Three inmates injured in Thursday’s Narathiwat prison riot were sent to Naradhiwasrajnagarindra Hospital for treatment, as the standoff between inmates and prison warders continued for the second day on Friday. Narathiwat Governor Thanon Vejjakornkanon reportedly contacted the hospital to transfer the three prisoners to hospital for treatment and asked the doctors […]
