News Forum - Work by convicts cleaning Bangkok’s sewage system starts next month

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City Hall has cleared a request by Bangkok Metropolitan Administration to work with the Department of Corrections to clean the sewers and improve flood irrigation management using prisoners with good behavioral records. City Hall insists human rights must be respected, use only volunteer inmates, pay wages, use protective equipment, and offer welfare benefits. Around 1,000 inmates from 10 of the city’s prisons will work on the project which is scheduled to start in July. All prisoners working on the project will be fully vaccinated and given Antigen tests, but they will not be permitted to see any family or roam […]

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13 minutes ago, Thaiger said:

City Hall insists human rights must be respected, use only volunteer inmates, pay wages, use protective equipment, and offer welfare benefits.

City Hall must have read my comments on this. Glad to have helped.