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- Crime News
5,000 prisoners in Thailand are suffering from mental health illness
There are 260,000 prisoners across 143 jails in Thailand, and…
- Crime News
Inspections reveal 12 Thai prisons serving rotten food to inmates
Spot-check inspections conducted at prisons across Thailand reveal that a…
- Thailand News
Prison guard under investigation for blackmail
After a guard at the Thonburi Women’s Correctional Institute in…
- Crime News
Thai activist writes about his sex life behind bars, gets put back in prison
A Thai activist is facing one year behind bars for…
- Crime News
11 inmates climb through hole in ceiling, escape from prison cell in Nakhon Sawan
Nearly a dozen inmates climbed through a hole in a…
- World News
Travel blogger jailed in China for posing with a veteran’s tombstone for pictures
A travel blogger in China was sentenced to seven months…
- Covid-19 News
Covid-19 in prison: outbreaks from overcrowding now subsiding
The Thai prison system has suffered from an overcrowding problem…
- Thailand News
Samut Prakan prison teams up with industrial sector for work release programme
More than 100 prison inmates are going to work in…
- Crime News
Customers at Isaan restaurant face 2 months in jail for drinking alcohol
Customers drinking alcohol at a restaurant in the Isaan province…
- Thailand News
Australian and American on Thai death row released from Thai death row, Supreme Court clears drug trafficking case
An Australian and Thai married couple, and an American man,…
- World News
Officials mull rehabilitation over incarceration for drug offences following fire at Indonesian prison
Yesterday, the Thaiger wrote about a fire at an Indonesian…
- World News
Fire kills 41, injures dozens more at Indonesian prison
At least 41 people have been killed and over 70…
- Thailand video news
Thailand News Today | Phuket eases domestic entry, Thitisan transferred to BKK prison | Sept 3
The deputy head of the national police has briefed a…
- Phuket News
Unused Phuket Prison to be field hospital
A Phuket prison that was collecting dust is now being…
- Thailand News
Thousands of inmates granted royal pardon on HM the King’s birthday
On his 69th birthday, HM the King granted a royal…
- World News
Swedish prison hostage situation resolved with pizza
Have you ever just had a really strong food craving? In…
- Northern Thailand News
4 inmates escape prison, 1 caught 3 at large
4 inmates escaped from a prison in northern Thailand’s Phetchabun…
- Thailand News
Korat prisons declared to be Covid free
Nakhon Ratchasima, aka Korat, a northeastern province, has no inmates…
- Thailand News
Former army adviser convicted of human trafficking dies in prison
A former army adviser, convicted of trafficking Rohingya migrants to camps…
- Covid-19 News
Samut Prakan inmates getting vaccinated
Samut Prakan, the province that sits just below Bangkok and…
- Covid-19 News
Thursday Covid Update: 3,323 cases and 47 deaths
3,323 new Covid-19 cases and a record high of 47…
- Covid-19 News
Cabinet approves Emergency Decree extension, prison funding
The Emergency Decree enacted to attempt to curb the spread…
- Covid-19 News
Fourth prison Covid-19 outbreak: 1,725 inmates infected at Thonburi prison
Thailand’s Department of Corrections is now tackling Covid-19 outbreaks at…
- Covid-19 News
Thailand urged to join in reducing global prisoners for Covid-19
After it was revealed that nearly 3,000 inmates in Thailand’s…
- Crime News
Inmate escapes from hospital in Rayong after Covid-19 test, arrested in Chanthaburi
Still dressed in a hospital gown, a prison inmate hopped…
- Thailand News
Thailand News Today | Covid case jump, Airlines ask for loans, Penguin hunger strike over | May 13
4,887 new infections from the past 24 hours, 7 member…
- Covid-19 News
196 Chaeng Wattana Road construction camp workers test positive for Covid-19
A construction camp off Bangkok’s Chaeng Wattana Road, which also…
- Covid-19 News
Amnesty International calls for Thailand to limit ‘unnecessary detention’ to reduce Covid-19 at prisons
Human rights activists are calling on the Thai government to…
- Covid-19 News
CCSA Update: 194 new Covid-19 cases, outbreak at Narathiwat prison
194 new Covid-19 cases were reported today in the Centre…
- Covid-19 News
100+ Covid-19 infections cancels all prison visits in Thailand’s south
After a small Covid-19 outbreak reported yesterday, the Corrections Department…
- Covid-19 News
6 Covid-19 infections in Surat Thani from prison
Today, 6 people contracted Covid-19 infections in the Surat Thani…
- Crime News
Thai rocker granted temporary bail after court upholds sentence
A Thai rock musician is being released on a temporary…
