Junta presses jail officials to stop drug trade behind bars
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Top Corrections Department officials should not continue in their posts if they failed to stop the drug trade in prisons, assistant Army chief General Paiboon Koomchaya said Wednesday.
Paiboon, who is in charge of legal and judicial affairs of the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO), said he had received a list of 200-300 prisoners suspected of being involved in the drug trade. He said these prisoners faced punishment and might be relocated from the prisons.
Paiboon said he would tackle the drug problem in jails and restructure the food procurement system in the Corrections Department to prevent drugs and mobile phones and other banned items from being smuggled in by those who supplied food to prisons.
The Nation
