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The Industrial Estate Authority of Thailand (IEAT) is gearing up for a resourceful plan to establish “correctional industrial estates”, where inmates can receive vocational training and return to the labour market after completing their prison terms.

All prisoners will receive a third anti-Covid booster dose by the end of this month, Justice Minister Somsak Thepsuthin said on Thursday.

Police on Tuesday arrested Patcharawut Moonthongsong, 38, the leader of eight inmates who escaped from their temporary holding cell at Nakhon Pathom’s 11th Infantry Regiment on Saturday.

Four of the nine inmates who escaped their temporary holding cell in Nakhon Pathom’s 11th Infantry Regiment were captured on Saturday, while the hunt for the rest intensifies.

Fifty-nine Myanmar inmates were released from Ranong Prison on Tuesday after being granted a royal pardon on the occasion of Coronation Day.

A coronation pardon was granted to 168 Central Nakhon Ratchasima Prison inmates on Wednesday, including a red-shirt leader who was jailed for lese majeste last year.

Police on Tuesday arrested an inmate who had escaped from a prison in Surat Thani province after finding him hiding in a sewer near the prison.

Three inmates who escaped from a court in Chumphon on Thursday were recaptured on Saturday morning, police said.

Inmates at 143 prisons nationwide are to be tested for tuberculosis in a joint project by the Department of Disease Control (DDC) and the Corrections Department.

Pol Colonel Narat Savettanan, director-general of the Corrections Department, urgently flew to the southern province of Chumphon on Thursday after three inmates stole a prison transport truck and escaped from Lang Suan Provincial Court.

Ten Iranian inmates have been sent home to serve their remaining terms in Iran, Corrections Department director-general Narat Sawettanan said on Thursday.