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In South Korea's shrinking cities, prisons bring hope
FRIDAY, APRIL 18, 2025
YIMBY mindsets take hold in small-town Korea as local populations age and shrink
Corrections Department working on plan to deal with possible flooding in prisons
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2022
The Corrections Department and the Geo-Informatics and Space Technology Development Agency (GISTDA) have joined hands to prepare for floods in prisons.
Four prison officials axed for alleged extortion, inmate abuse
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 16, 2021
The Department of Corrections’ disciplinary board has fired four officials who allegedly committed “severe disciplinary offences” against prison inmates and their relatives, the department announced on Thursday.
Nearly 3,500 new Covid-19 cases and 32 deaths
FRIDAY, MAY 21, 2021
The Ministry of Public Health on Friday morning reported 3,481 new patients in the past 24 hours, 951 of them in prisons, and 32 deaths.
Lower number of Covid infections
THURSDAY, MAY 20, 2021
Thailand on Thursday reported a lower number of new Covid-19 infections both inside and outside prisons at 2,636 cases and 25 new deaths.
Thai transsexual prisoners being denied hormones, says activist
MONDAY, JULY 15, 2019
Prisons to ban sale of tobacco products and cigarettes
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 05, 2018
A NEW REGULATION will ban the sale of cigarettes and tobacco at all prisons across the country to reduce the number of inmates falling sick or dying from respiratory diseases, Corrections Department director-general |Pol Colonel Narat Savettanan said.
388 suspected TB cases found among inmates in Phitsanulok prisons
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2018
Some 388 inmates at two prisons in Phitsanulok were found to have signs of tuberculosis, public health officials found after they performed lung x-rays.
Food budget for prisons runs out mid-year
SUNDAY, JUNE 10, 2018
EACH DAY, every inmate of a Thai prison is expected to survive on Bt49 worth of food and cooking gas.
Corrections Department sacks 14 wayward officials
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 01, 2017
In a bid to keep the Corrections Department “clean, corruption-free and equal”, 14 officials found guilty of various wrongdoings were dismissed this week.