Bang Kwang Central Prison

Bangkwang (Thai บางขวาง) is a jail in Bangkok, Thailand. It is nicknamed "Big Tiger", because the prison "eats people up". It is a harsh prison which handles death row and long-sentence prisoners.

BANGKWANG Man sentenced to 12 Death Sentences!! Terrorist? Serial Killer? No!!!! Let me introduce my friend from Poland (Mr. Paul) was sentenced to 12 Death sentences! It must be a horrendous crime Mr. Paul committed. How many people did he kill? Well! In Thailand killing someone can be punished by as little as a fifty pound fine settled out of court. So what was Paul’s horrendous crime? On 12 occasions he sent Ecstasy to a so called girlfriend living in Thailand from his home in Poland. The girlfriend, a Thailand citizen, turned out that she worked for the D.E.A. of America. She persuades unsuspecting first time foreign holiday makers to help her by sending her very small amounts of Ecstasy through the post once they return home. In my friends case this ranged from 0.2 grams to 7 grams with a total of just over 50 grams. Paul’s pleas of guilty reduced his 12 Death sentences to a life sentence. Entrapment by the D.E.A. (Police) is illegal in America, but is freely practiced by the American D.E.A. police in Thailand. http://www.steveatbangkwang.bravehost.com

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BANGKWANG Living in a Coffin? No such luxury!!! Try and imagine this! For 15 hours a day, every day for the next 33 ½ years I’m confined to living in a space 180cm or 6 feet long by a width of 52 cm or 21 inches, that’s less living space than when I’ am dead and buried in a coffin. 3 blankets folded in half and sown together, to act as my only cushions from the hard concrete floor. Over 20 years of my 33 ½ year sentence I’ am forced to live in a space hardly wider than my shoulders and slightly less than my body length. Overcrowding? Has a whole new meaning herein Bangkwang Prison Bangkok!! Unable to walk, only able to sit up and stand on my bed roll, as every inch of our prison cell floor space we are packed tighter than sardines in a tin!! When I hear of prisons in England being overcrowded where 2 people share a cell with real beds and a toilet, how I dream of such luxury when I compare how I live here. http://www.steveatbangkwang.bravehost.com

External links

http://www.steveatbangkwang.bravehost.com Life in Bangkwang Prison

• Short description at the Department of Corrections, Thailand
• Foreignprisoners.com is a website for prisoners in Bangkwang
• PrisonLIFE.nl Website for Dutch prisoners in Bangkwang
• Levenslang in Thailand (Dutch bestseller, Lifesentence in Thailand) written by Pedro Ruijzing
• Bangkwang.net, information about visiting Bangkwang prison