One twin is out on bail but the police insist they arrested the right one. The brother wants the police to arrest him & free his sibling. One twin was arrested & sentenced for a crime that the other allegedly did. Which one is really guilty? http://t.co/NAlnhxUG - MT @Rawangpai Story of Thai twins is continuing to capture attention of the media who are lining up to interview them http://t.co/FWonnCGf - MT @Rawangpai RT @wayne_hay: After death of Uncle SMS, another Lese Majeste inmate, Surachai, taken to police hospital in Bkk to see specialist doc. Nonthaburi police raided Bang Kwang Prison in Bangkok & found 200 inmates who tested positive for drugs, 28 mobile phones & weapons (TAN) Seven out of 143 Thai prisons have been declared "white prisons" as they are free from illegal things such as drugs & mobile phones Twin visits jailed brother who he says is serving for his crime (Bangkok Post) http://t.co/WFqsnOFd Surachai Saedan wrote his will in jail, asking people to take his body to protest against LM law until it's amended /via @Ryn_writes Thanyaburi Court rejects plea to release Anont Ounwong from prison. His identical twin brother said he did the crime (BkkPost)Latest news about prisons in Thailand from the local and international media.
The chief justice of the Criminal Court has explained the reason why lese majeste inmate Ampon Tangnoppakul, who died on Tuesday, was denied bail. Thawee Prachuablarp said yesterday that after the Criminal Court delivered its verdict against Ampon, his lawyer appealed for bail release on the grounds of his ill health. While the Appeal...
A man has turned himself in to police to face assault charges after claiming his twin brother was mistakenly found guilty and sentenced to four years in prison for the crime he committed. Anek Ounwong, 30, arrived at Pratunam Chulalongkorn police station yesterday in Thanyaburi district along with his mother Boonkerd Ounwong. Mr Anek...
A Thai man in his 60s who became known as “Uncle SMS” after he was convicted of defaming Thailand’s royal family in mobile phone text messages has died while serving his 20-year prison term, his lawyer said Tuesday. The case of Amphon Tangnoppakul, a grandfather who had suffered from mouth cancer, drew attention to...
The 61-year-old Thai man better known as “Ah-gong” or “Uncle SMS” for sending text messages deemed insulting to the monarchy and who received a 20-year prison sentence died early today, Corrections Department Director-General Suchart Wonganantachai announced. Lese majeste convict Ampol Tangnoppakul suffered stomachache since Thursday and had taken medication provided by Bangkok Remand Prison...
Chavoret Jaruboon, who died recently, took the lives of 55 men during his career as an executioner but had a gentle demeanour that belied his grisly job What sort of person leans over a sub-machine gun bolted to the floor, takes aim at a target on a white curtain in front of a condemned...
Although 470 cellphones used by inmates have been retrieved in the past month from multiple searches of the Nakhon Si Thammarat provincial prison, 11 more were discovered yesterday hidden in plastic water bottles, along with crystalline meth dissolved in soft drinks. A clear type of ‘ice’ flakes was mixed with water and injected into...
After spending almost two decades in a Thai prison, a Joburg drug mule admitted he lied to his family about what he was doing when he was caught trying to smuggle heroin out of that country. Alexander “Shani” Krebs returned to Joburg on Saturday, after serving 18 years in Bangkok’s Bang Kwang Prison for...
Parties were held by inmates of the central Nakhon Si Thammarat prison in violation of prison regulations, made possible by corrupt guards allowing in narcotics and contraband items, deputy Corrections Department director general Kobkiat Kasiwiwat admitted yesterday. Use of drugs is believed to have been free and rampant – information supported by video clips...
A total of 28 prison wardens and officials found involved in bringing in illicit drugs, mobile phones and other prohibited items into prisons have been dismissed over the past six months. The Corrections Department has seized 9,513 mobile phones and smartphones, 5,834 Sim cards, 58,991 methamphetamine pills, and about 6,577 grammes of crystal meth,...
A followup search has uncovered more banned items at the Nakhon Si Thammarat Central Prison and more than 600 inmates have tested positive to drug tests. The surprise followup operation started Monday evening and finished at 2.30am yesterday. During the search, 52 smart phones, more than 100grammes of crystal methamphetamine, and 50gm of raw...
Central Correctional Hospital at Klong Prem Prison
Search of Prison Guards
Drug Use in Prison Caught on Mobile Phones
Khun Chavoret Jaruboon, Thailand's Last Executioner, has died
Prison guards armed with shotguns
New restraining devices
Confiscated Phones, Weapons and Drugs
Home-made rocket launcher
Prison Art and Craft Fair at Klong Prem
Mobile dental program for prisons
