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| Corrections Dept. reveals prisoner tricks |
| By The Nation |
| Published: 01/21/2008 |
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THAILAND - The Justice Ministry launched Monday a project at Bangkok's Miracle Hotel to train officials to stamp out drug trafficking and other crimes. The scheme is aimed to help corrections officials obtain narcotics information from inmates so that related agencies can act on the information to arrest drug dealers. Wanchai Roujanavong said department officials target inmates convicted of drug offences and if they cooperate, they are given "goodbehaviour" status which offers them a chance of a royal pardon or a reduced jail term, he said. The policy has led to some 1,000 items of information being obtained in two years but much of it was of no practical use and only 215 items could be acted on, he added. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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