Committee to investigate prison officers over deaths of 4 inmates
The Department of Corrections has established a committee to investigate officers in Phitsanulok Prison after four prisoners died over the New Year.
The department’s director-general, Pol Colonel Naras Savestanan, said on Saturday (January 4) that after the incident, the department had sent the director of the Medical Service Division, with assistance from the director of the Bureau of Epidemiology under the Department of Disease Control, Ministry of Public Health to investigate the cause of the deaths at Wangthong Hospital.
“The investigation report stated that all four inmates may have died from food-related illness with low potassium level,” he said.
Naras initially concluded that there must be errors in the raw-food purchasing and inspection process, including the food quality.
“This year, the selection method was under the Finance Ministry’s regulations, so it should not have any issues about delivering poor quality foods to prisons,” he added.