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.
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 on Dec 8 under the decree while over 10,000 convicts will receive reduced punishment. The ceremony to release inmates will be officially carried out nationwide, while the main...
A man who sent text messages deemed insulting to Thailand’s monarchy has been jailed for 20 years. Amphon Tangnoppakul, 61, was convicted of sending four messages last year to an official working for then Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva. He was charged under the Computer Crimes Act and lese majeste law, which is designed to...
Four inmates were killed and 16 others seriously injured after two sets of convicts fought a pitched battle in Trat prison yesterday. The clash between evacuated prisoners from flood-hit Ayutthaya and Pathum Thani and Trat inmates broke out around 3pm. The brawl ended two hours later after a combined team of soldiers, police and...
The Corrections Department on Wednesday used 17 buses to relocate about 600 prisoners from Bang Kwang prison in Nonthaburi which is under a flood threat. Water from the Chao Phraya River has partly flooded the road in front of Bang Kwang maximum security prison. The prisoners were being moved to other maximum security prisons...
More than 1,000 inmates of Pathum Thani’s Thanyaburi prison on Rangsit-Nakhon Nayok road have already been evacuated to prisons in Kampaengphet, Tak and Phitsanulok for safety reasons, the prison’s commander Thawee Duangthamma said on Monday. About 1,000 remaining inmates were also being transferred to other prisons, he added. Mr Thawee said the decision to evacuate was...
About 300 prison inmates will be sent to help soldiers build up the sandbag embankments around Suvarnabhumi airport tomorrow, the Correction Department deputy chief said on Thursday. Thanis Sriyaphan said he will take 300 well behaved inmates from prisons in Bangkok and surrounding provinces to help put up sandbags around Suvarnabhumi airport in Samut...
Modern Thai political history would not be complete without mention of the Special Branch Police prison. Also known as the Lak Si temporary detention centre, it is being brought back into operation after being mothballed two years ago. The plan to revive and renovate the prison is welcome news for many special branch...
A federal judge will consider an Australian national’s request to have his drug trafficking charges dropped because it’s been nine years since he was charged, according to court records. However, U.S. prosecutors say in filings it’s defendant Mitchell Blake’s own fault his speedy trial rights weren’t met because he was serving a Thai prison...
Two inmates at Pattani Central Prison were killed yesterday in a riot fuelled by tensions between Muslim and Buddhist inmates. The conflict culminated with prison authorities last night agreeing to move the prison’s 39 Buddhist inmates who were involved in fighting with Muslim rioters to a Songkhla jail. The clash started after the prison...
Should travelers find themselves on the wrong side of Thai law in a single “lapse in judgment”, it could be all it takes “to lose all your civil liberties”. So argues a 46-year old American, who in April served two weeks in the high-security Bangkok Remand Prison. He described conditions in the prison as...
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
