News Forum - Annual report finds Thai prisons well below international standards

[Thaiger]

An annual report has found that Thai prisons in 2022 were well below international standards. The no-governmental organisation, the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the Union for Civil Liberty released the report yesterday, according to Prachatai English. The report findings show that the aftermath of the Covid-19 outbreak led to authorities making little …

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[Chatogaster]

 

When a "study" (in the broadest sense of the word) comes out and declares Kaeng Som to be the 12th worst dish in the world, a shock reverberates through the nation and facebook/twitter/tiktok/... gets flooded.

Now a (real) study has come out and for the umpteenth time it is confirmed that Thailand is at the pits when comparing its prison system to the rest of the world. If the prisons housed dogs and cats instead of humans, people would be in uproar and many posts would use terms like "animal cruelty".

Yet the social web is silent, no politician has felt a statement is needed, and life goes on without noticing this blip. It's a sad state of humans/affairs.
 

 

[Pinetree]

well stay out of jail then, simples. 

[Pinetree]

29 minutes ago, Chatogaster said:

Yet the social web is silent, no politician has felt a statement is needed, and life goes on without noticing this blip. It's a sad state of humans/affairs.

Not many of us care a whole lot and its not a vote winner, that's your answer. 

[Chatogaster]

22 minutes ago, Pinetree said:

Not many of us care a whole lot and its not a vote winner, that's your answer. 

 

That's a quacky answer for the most trivial of reasons: no question was asked.

There was however an observation (implicitly stated), namely that the fact that somebody did something wrong (on some scale) seems to be accepted as a blank voucher for all repercussions (on any scale). The topic is indeed not a vote winner because people feel more comfortable by leaving some indefensible opinions out of sight and thought. Humans resemble ostriches in that respect, even though their motives are different.
 

 

[Pinetree]

13 minutes ago, Chatogaster said:

That's a quacky answer for the most trivial of reasons: no question was asked.

There was however an observation (implicitly stated), namely that the fact that somebody did something wrong (on some scale) seems to be accepted as a blank voucher for all repercussions (on any scale). The topic is indeed not a vote winner because people feel more comfortable by leaving some indefensible opinions out of sight and thought. Humans resemble ostriches in that respect, even though their motives are different.
 

A question was implied in your post.  As for caring, no, not a whole lot, just stay straight here and its not a worry. Stray and suffer the consequences. 

[Grumpish]

52 minutes ago, Pinetree said:

well stay out of jail then, simples. 

Those conditions do look pretty grim. You are right, though - as the saying goes "if you can't take the time, don't do the crime".

[HolyCowCm]

1 hour ago, Pinetree said:

well stay out of jail then, simples. 

If you can help it and are smart enough to get in, then get out of the biz.

[AdvocatusDiaboli]

3 hours ago, Thaiger said:

An annual report has found that Thai prisons in 2022 were well below international standards.

But we’ll above the international standards compared to Russia, Venezuela, Rwanda & North Korea