Campaign to clean up prisons kicks off
The Nation

The authorities conduct random tests for drugs on 200 of 2,809 inmates at Phuket provincial prison yesterday. All the tests came back negative.

BANGKOK: -- THE CORRECTIONS Department kicked off its Big Cleaning campaign by raiding the Pathum Thani prison and Bangkok's Klong Prem remand centre yesterday.

However, the authorities found no mobile phones or contraband items at the Pathum Thani facility's Area 3, in which some 1,000 male inmates are held, prison commander Athicha Kheosen said. Under new regulations, prisoners are only allowed to keep their personal belongings in lockers, which guards can also access.

A search on Thursday at another prison in the province, where 1,767 male and female inmates are confined separately, also turned up no contraband apart from a few mobile phones without SIM cards.

Search is also underway at all eight areas in the Klong Prem facility, prison commander Nimit Thabwanan said, adding that 10 trucks were needed to take away and discard non-essential items possessed by inmates.

The campaign to reorganise all prisons is in line with Justice Minister General Paiboon Koomchaya's policy to eradicate drug dealing and other crimes within prisons, as well as preventing the possible spread of disease.

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/national/Campaign-to-clean-up-prisons-kicks-off-30261263.html

-- The Nation 2015-05-30

Any staff tested too ?

Well , obviously someone made some phone calls...

Just wondering how many of the people who's doing the so called prison cleaning should

be or will end up in prison themselves....

What a load of crock every prison is full of drugs, the warders must have been holding it during the raid.

They should improve the food and sanitary conditions and release low level drug users or poorer people who are incarcerated because they didn't have the money to pay their fines to, It would alleviate overcrowding and improve what is generally a cruel and inhumane place.

All this effort to clamp down on drugs...fair enough ice and Yaba are pretty damaging but let them have pot at least. i have some warden friends at a private prison in Australia who long for the days when pot was easier to get in jail and prisoner troubles and violence were kept to a minimum. After a Govt crackdown things got much worse for all concerned.

All prison wardens want their inmates high on something to keep them mellow and passive, less violence and less problems for prison guards. Marijuana, Hashish, Valium, Heroin.

Even with body searches it is brought in thru visiting rooms, employees, and sometimes the bag just comes in over the wall at Arthur Road Prison in Bombay/Mumbai.

Ive been to prison in Thailand recently released and I can tell you your all wrong. No drugs anymore. Or contraband at all. They said there was about 4 years ago but now nothing. Only very very hard time. I can say first hand Thai prison is one place you do not ever want to be. No food, No water. No nothing unless someone from the outside buys it for you. Very over crowded one cell for 100 had 270 in it and no communications with the outside world visitors get 10 minuted to talk on a phone with you. They wait 1-3 hours for their visit. You sleep on the concrete floor if your lucky with a blanket. Your embassy will do very little to help you. And every part of your day anyone would consider torture....Thats the truth.....Foreigners are usually given longer and harder sentences with no probation or parol or suspended sentences. And you can be remanded on the word of one person. The Thai Justice system has to prove nothing. You have to prove your innocents. Very difficult or impossible to do from inside prison. Forigners bail amounts are automatically doubled. And you will not find a lawyer who does not steal all your money from inside. If you pay them they steal the money and do nothing and if you do not pay them they do nothing....

i think it would be possible that the person involved in testing and doing the billing, might just pocket the money for the tests and say: all negative ???????

my wife's work pays for free yearly pap smear, everyone's is ok ... she went to a private hospital, and get stage 2 of cancer , did biopsy / culture to be sure