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Thailand: the overcriminalization of meth, a failed moral crusade
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ICPR and Prison Insider asked several experts worldwide to share their insights in the framework of the project ‘Understanding and reducing the use of imprisonment in 10 countries’. Pascal Tanguay discusses the overcriminalization of meth-related crimes in Thailand and its consequences.
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In less than a week, Thailand’s Department of Corrections has reported over 11,000 new COVID cases in 13 of the country’s prisons. When the daily number of new COVID-19 cases reached a record high for the entire country on Monday, May 17, 71 percent of the 9,635 new infections reported were in prisons.…
Source — The Diplomat
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Parit Chiwarak, 22, was charged in February with sedition and defaming the monarchy for his role in leading demonstrations. Parit’s lawyer requested bail for him and three others charged with the same offences, but the court denied it.
Corrections officials at Pathumthani Detention Center north of Bangkok…
Source — Washington post
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Thailand: managing uncertainty
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Coronavirus
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Thailand
As the COVID-19 outbreaks around the world suprised most governments, how did the Thai authorities respond to the crisis behind the bars? Were prison authorities prepared to avoid the spread of the virus? Which measures were taken and how did them impact prisoners’ lives?
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Pre-trial detention
Women
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The group, led by Ploy Dechwongsa and Kornkanok Khumta, held up signs saying “unchain political prisoners” and “this is all they can do to us” in front of the Central Women Correctional Institution. They also read a statement calling for the Department of Corrections to follow the International Covenant…
Source — Prachatai
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Thailand plans to turn about half its prisons into tourist attractions to boost visitor numbers as the Southeast Asian nation struggles to recover from an economic slump caused by the coronavirus outbreak.
Source — Jakarta Post
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BANGKOK — A university is working with a prison to help tackle overcrowding and unhygienic conditions that have stalked the Thai corrections system for years.
In a joint project by King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi and Thonburi Remand Prison, architecture students are asked to come up…
Source — Khaosod English
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A Thai prisoner died early Tuesday after being electrocuted by high-voltage barbed wire as he attempted to escape, police said.
Wiwat Aksorsom, 32, broke free from his cell just after midnight along with two other prisoners and tried to scale the six-metre (20-ft) walls of his prison in southern Surat…
Source — BFMTV
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This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the French version.
Source — Libération
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New scheme gives assistance to ex-convicts to break cycle of reoffending .
Source — Bangkok Post
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Torture
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As Thailand has delayed passage of legislation to criminalize torture and enforced disappearances, a committee created by the junta leader to investigate the matter met for the first time Monday.
The committee, chaired by Justice Minister Suwaphan Tanyuvardhana, was set up under Gen. Prayuth Chan-ocha’s…
Source — Khaosod English
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Officers at the centre, located on Sakdidet Rd, called for backup at about 4pm after they found they could not contain the youths, who were smashing windows and tearing apart the dormitory and other areas in the youth detention facility.
Phuket City Police led by Deputy Commander Lt Col Nikorn Chuthong…
Source — The Phuket News
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It is easy to imagine Kobkiat Kasiwiwat as a school administrator when he talks of the specialties of his “students”.
Source — Bangkok Post
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Women inmates find a different form of release while waiting for the gates to open
Dozens of female prisoners slowly stretch their limbs during a relaxing yoga class at Bangkok’s Klong Prem Central Prison. “I feel calm listening to the instructor’s voice, and as my muscles unwind, my heart lifts,” says…
Source — The Nation
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This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the French version.
Source — Libération
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Prison conditions contravene UN treaties barring torture and stipulating minimum prisoner rights, group says.
Thailand’s prisons fail to meet international standards with inmates routinely shackled, beaten, and stuffed into overcrowded cells, an international human rights group said.
Thailand also has…
Source — Aljazeera
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Paris, Bangkok - Thailand’s ongoing failure to enact comprehensive prison reforms has created conditions for human rights violations to be rife in its prison system, FIDH and UCL said in a new report published today. The report, titled “Behind the walls – A look at prison conditions in Thailand after…
Source — FIDH
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