News Forum - Inspections reveal 12 Thai prisons serving rotten food to inmates

[Thaiger]

Spot-check inspections conducted at prisons across Thailand reveal that a total of 12 prisons were serving rotten food to inmates. The prisons were serving chicken, pork, vegetables and condiments all past their use-by-date. Prison officers in the 12 prisons are thought to have profited from the scandal, according to Justice Minister Somsak Thepsuthin, who publicly addressed the results of the inspections on Wednesday… “We have to be strict about food because it is one way we can ensure that inmates are accessing their full rights. I have often spoken to the Director-General of the Department of Corrections about how inmates’ […]

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[Vigo]

Minister promises that responsible officials will be demoted. No mention of terminated or prosecuted for corruption. Corruption is what holds Thailand back and continues to cause such misery.

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The prisons were serving chicken, pork, vegetables and condiments all past their use-by-date. 

 

Not really rotten... 

[Fanta]

Prisons receive food ingredients almost daily. It is most likely that the expiry date had passed before the products even reached the prison. Corruption. 

[HiuMak]

It is not exactly fine dining experience in Prison, but serving expired food is not desirable. Inflation or stretching the budget?

[Grumpyoldman]

It is a prison. What a shame the inmates life is "so difficult".  

 

I don't agree with corruption, but in a poor country it is a way of life.  

[PBS]

9 minutes ago, Grumpyoldman said:

It is a prison. What a shame the inmates life is "so difficult".  

I don't agree with corruption, but in a poor country it is a way of life.  

Prison staff / contractors profiting off food supply should IMO, if found guilty, be jailed. By not meeting the criteria for basic human rights by way of edible food they are causing unneccesary harm and likely causing difficulties managing the prisoner population. 

[HolyCowCm]

7 hours ago, Fanta said:

Prisons receive food ingredients almost daily. It is most likely that the expiry date had passed before the products even reached the prison. Corruption. 

The meats probably bought in large cheap bulk and stored past its time. My guess is the meats were scraps. Vegetables probably had a deal with markets getting the wilted past the over the counter sellable type of the ones chewed up with bug holes. Both the meat and vegetables they should look at the end price and the grades. There are probably two types of food there. One of ok quality for the ones who pay, and ones of OMG below standard for the ones who are just there scraping by. Maybe 3 types of grade.

 

 

[Bluesofa]

18 hours ago, Thaiger said:

according to Justice Minister Somsak Thepsuthin, who publicly addressed the results of the inspections on Wednesday… “We have to be strict about food because it is one way we can ensure that inmates are accessing their full rights

'ensure that inmates are accessing their full rights'     Surely an oxymoron in Thailand?