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Justice Minister Somsak Thepsuthin met with ministry deputy permanent secretary Sahakarn Petchnarin, Department of Correction’s director-general Ayuth Sintoppant and other department executives on Wednesday, taking note that more prisoners were escaping than before chiefly because they were in a quarantine area.

A politician’s son has been linked to the escape plan of former deputy commerce minister Banyin Tangpakorn, the Crime Suppression Division (CSD) said today (June 22).

Former deputy commerce minister Banyin Tangpakorn was transferred to a solitary cell after Bangkwang Central Prison officials learned of an alleged escape plan that involved taking the prison chief's wife hostage and escaping in a helicopter.

An inmate was recaptured Sunday just hours after he escaped from the Phu Khiao prison in Chaiyaphum.

A jailbreak in western Indonesia has left 90 inmates on the run after they escaped by breaking down fences when they were supposed to be at a prayer gathering, an official said Friday.

As the manhunt continued on Sunday for two drug inmates who escaped from a provincial prison in Sukhothai on Saturday evening, the Corrections Department chief has given the prison director 48 hours to re-capture them or face a transfer.

Two of 16 jailbreakers surrendered to Narathiwat prison officials on Saturday night, one day after they escaped from the Khok Yamoo temporary prison.

YANGON - Police in southern Myanmar were on Monday hunting six men who broke out of jail using their longyi, a type of local sarong, as ropes to climb down from the roof.