Thai Immigration Ends Practice Of Jailing Children

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Thai Immigration Ends Practice Of Jailing Children

By Teeranai Charuvastra, Staff Reporter

 

Top: Inmates at Immigration Detention Center, or IDC, speak to reporters Monday.

 

BANGKOK — Children are no longer being held in that nation’s immigration detention facilities, immigration police said Wednesday in a move lauded by human rights advocates.

 

Instead of forcing minors to languish alongside other inmates inside Bangkok’s central Immigration Detention Center, or IDC, prison warden Thatchapong Sarawanangkool said children and their mothers will now live in shelters run by the social affairs ministry.

 

Full story: http://www.khaosodenglish.com/news/crimecourtscalamity/2019/01/23/thai-immigration-stop-jailing-children/

 

-- © Copyright Khaosod English 2019-01-23

[Maestro]

Removed a troll post and the replies to it.

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That's a step forward.  Well done.

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Oh Golly! Trump can learn from this one!

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Is this in response to a very recent, rather damning report from the BBC, who secretly filmed inside the facility and interviewed Bangladeshis interned with their children? Suffice to say it did not look good.

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On the surface this sounds like a good idea(AKA it is Poltically Correct).  But who will operate the shelters?  What are the standards of care and treatment of those residing in the shelter?  How long can a minor and parent/guardian stay in these shelters?  Forever?  Some of the worst abuses and neglect can arise from Government Operated and/or contracted shelters.  I hope it works.