Ratchaburi's maximum security Khao Bin prison overcrowded

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Ratchaburi's maximum security Khao Bin prison overcrowded

RATCHABURI, 1 July 2014 (NNT) – The Department of Corrections sent another 173 inmates to the maximum security prison in Ratchaburi on Monday, exceeding the capacity of the maximum security zone.

The 173 inmates, most of whom were serving time for major drug-related offenses, were brought to the Khao Bin Prison in Ratchaburi's Mueang district from 13 prisons throughout the country.

According to Yotsaphon Sutham, the commissioner of Khao Bin Prison, there are now 477 inmates within the maximum security zone, which has been designed to support only 444 individuals.

Prison officials have been told to screen the inmates and remove those who are no longer active in drug dealing from the zone. However, if more inmates continue to arrive, each cell within the zone would have to accommodate 14 inmates instead of 12 at present.


-- NNT 2014-07-01

[djjamie]

Now the police are actually arresting criminals a few new jails will need to be built in Thailand to accommodate them.

[ChrisY1]

I hope they have some "VIP" cells ready for the rice scheme pollies when convictions begin........yeh..I know...it'll be years away!

[leesgems]

"most of whom were serving time for major drug-related offenses"

This War on Drugs is very expensive to the Thai people.

[soalbundy]

Well that didn't take long did it, new prison is already overfull,doesn't say much for the old ones

[lostmebike]

I thought in a report yesterday it said it's capacity was 500???

[ezzra]

I bet they're crowded with those credit cards fraudsters, right?........

[renaissanc]

An overcrowded environment full of violent people and drug dealers isn't going to result in the criminals changing their ways. They will simply learn new ways.

[Chris Lawrence]

Can we send Rolf Harris here? Could help in his rehabilatation?

[wabothai]

Would be wise to knock on mr. Hilton's door.

[shaurene]

I always said prisons in every country should be run by the army with the army personnel running them and prisons should be built in the jungles and if any escape god help them. Let the army run and control them they will not want to come back, ever.

This would be good for country's that have conscription, like Thailand the troops would have something good to do in teaching the inmates to be good or a 20 mile run with 30 kegs on your back and a bag of rice.

So many young guys do AWAL because it is all running, training etc let the army run the prisons. The criminals will not want to come back.

[jcisco]

I always said prisons in every country should be run by the army with the army personnel running them and prisons should be built in the jungles and if any escape god help them. Let the army run and control them they will not want to come back, ever.

This would be good for country's that have conscription, like Thailand the troops would have something good to do in teaching the inmates to be good or a 20 mile run with 30 kegs on your back and a bag of rice.

So many young guys do AWAL because it is all running, training etc let the army run the prisons. The criminals will not want to come back.

This is going to be blunt, but you have zero understanding of what a prison is and how they are now used to service society.

And then you go onto showing that also just for kicks making suggestions with no knowledge of prisons and their performance as it stands nor their expectations.

Really it is too early to blast you with an essay so:

Armies are to fight the enemies of the state, the state being the people. The prisoners are people of the state, you are suggesting to make the people a target of the military. I would think it is best in the interests of all that armies keep their focus on their traditional and effective role of external threat protection. I could go on... but this is just a bad idea

And since you are proposing the military train the prison population, you realise the result will be physically fit men who will have respect for command and worse yet military discipline and maybe even mindset.

So now large numbers of men whom find it not to rehabilitate their criminal behavior and relapse into criminal activity will now be much more difficult to suppress. It makes them easier to organise, predictable, effective, replace and I am sure far more effective in their jobs.

While I understand how you came to this conclusion and I am sure it would be good for a majority of inmates, overall negative impact from re-offenders could be substantial. Perhaps a much more expansive education and economic development programs would be better at helping the society than stamping out a new trained workforce.

You really should understand that the armies of the world teach the way they do because it is effective and it works, They do not do things half assed in the basic training you mention, so getting even the essence of it, is not going to happen.