Prisoners Clean Sewers at Huai Khwang Market

[snoop1130]

Photo: @Rattiya_Mcot

 

BANGKOK, June 20 (TNA) – Prisoners were deployed to clean sewers again today at the Huai Khwang market due to resumed collaboration between the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration and the Corrections Department under the Ministry of Justice.

 

Inspecting the prisoners’ contribution and giving them moral support, Bangkok governor Chadchart Sittipunt said he was grateful for Justice Minister Somsak Thepsutin’s decision to send model prisoners to clean sewers on a combined distance of 530 kilometers while the Corrections Department supplied protective gear to the prisoners including helmets, gloves and goggles.

 

In the 2022 fiscal year, the BMA plans to have about 3,390 kilometers of sewers cleaned. It hired the Corrections Department to clean sewers with a combined distance of about 530 kilometers and it would handle the rest, 2,856 kilometers.

 

Full Story: https://tna.mcot.net/english-news-963689

 

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[Tarteso]

Not sure if cleaning sewers they get moral support.. at 40 degrees. ????

[Will B Good]

15 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

model prisoners to clean sewers

If only the 'model prisoners' get to clean sewers in 40C, you have to wonder what happens to the prisoners who don't conform.......!!!!!

[chalawaan]

The governor bought them all a market lunch out of his own pocket as a humane gesture of thanks, it was all over Thai Twitter, but not of course, mentioned in the elite-owned press sites regurgitated on here, who hate his guts. 

[sammieuk1]

Next up plague closes jail ???? 

[RandiRona]

Ofcouse, they arent as sophisticated as Uighurs do to make Nike in China but Thailand learning from Papa Xi....Prisoners are free labours.

[JeffersLos]

Probably smells nicer than their jam packed jail cell with one bucket in the corner. 

[KhunLA]

Does state 'model' prisoners, so suspect they are all 'volunteers' and nobody being forced to do anything.  Spin as you might with silly comparisons to slave labor, that may or may not exist elsewhere, depending what MSM outlet you believe.

 

Personally I feel all prisoners, if not a risk to society, should be on some sort of 'chain gang', without the chains, and doing public works.   Prison is punishment, not  holiday.  And it may give them a skill, and actually some minor sort of rehabilitation.  If the labor part sucks, then more motivation not to be a repeat resident.

 

A win win all around.

[hotchilli]

1 hour ago, Will B Good said:

If only the 'model prisoners' get to clean sewers in 40C, you have to wonder what happens to the prisoners who don't conform.......!!!!!

Clean the prison Karzi?

[hotchilli]

42 minutes ago, KhunLA said:

Personally I feel all prisoners, if not a risk to society, should be on some sort of 'chain gang', without the chains, and doing public works.   Prison is punishment, not  holiday.  And it may give them a skill, and actually some minor sort of rehabilitation.  If the labor part sucks, then more motivation not to be a repeat resident.

Agreed, "model" prisoners who are no threat to the public should be employed by local authorities to do such work, road cleaning, klong cleaning, general litter picking, keeping parks etc tidy.

A win win for all concerned.

[thailand49]

That's all they were given got a cheap lunch model citizen not too smart easier to make license plates????

[RobU]

Good Idea,. Model prisoners got the chance to get outside the prison and see the outside world, change of scenery. They probaby got a better meal then they would have in prison and a chance to sit amongst people who are not prisoners too. They cleared drains which are not maintained, doing a job that the local authority should do (but doesn't)

[unblocktheplanet]

On 6/21/2022 at 9:16 AM, Will B Good said:

If only the 'model prisoners' get to clean sewers in 40C, you have to wonder what happens to the prisoners who don't conform.......!!!!!

L-M...

[unblocktheplanet]

Of course, they get paid, right?

[Lucky Bones]

On 6/21/2022 at 9:40 AM, sammieuk1 said:

Next up plague closes jail ???? 

Maybe not a bad thought.