BANGKWANG PRISON
(( translated from Dutch to English by [[worldlingo.com/wl/translate]].
But levenslang lasts briefly in the hell of Bangkok Hilton
by: Barrel carters - utrechts nieuwsblad 5 November 2003, 16.11
UTRECHT - Tbc, AIDS, HIV, lepra. The most terrible sicknesses infest the prisons in thailand. Still but to be silent concerning assassinations and the drug victims.
Machiel Kuijt have got levenslang for complicity to drug smuggling. It is not clear in which prison he that sentence must undergo. Up to present zat he in the Khlong Prem-gevangenis in Bangkok. By all odds he is now transferred to one of most notorious: the bangkwang prison, as ` Bangkok also confessed Hilton.
There 7000 people sit out sentences of 25 years or longer. The Hilton had been built initially for no longer than 3500 prisoners.
The German magazine of the mirror wrote that an European it continues no longer then ten years in Bangkwang.
Dominee Martien Uittenbosch of the foundation Epafras of the utrechtse dominee track, Kuijt two visit times per year. ,,I do not exclude that Machiel sit now in Bangkwang. There many langgestraften sit. Or that ten years correct am not weet I. There the tale of a Dutchman goes who has sat eighteen years. At this moment there two Dutch are who it endure there already eight years.''
Average sharing 24 prisoners and uncountable cockroaches an cell of evenzovele square meters. Mattresses or lakens must come of outside. That costs money and he who that does not have, breakdown has. He who more space wants, that can buy also. For a couple tientjes (euro) per trimester care the keepers that there go no longer than 15 people in an cell.
Kuijt wait possibly also still a collar. ,,That gets terdoodveroordeelden and some people with lifelong. Two stole pinkdikke ring around your ankles are ordered with nine links. In the middle zit a chalk line so that you can keep the collar of the ground at running. If they assess that there flight danger is the links become heavier.''
Just like the poor from Bangkok which to the bank of the surrounding river Chao Phraya bathe, wassen the gedetineerden itself with river water, a source of eye - and oorinfecties. control water costs money.
The prison pot schaft rises with a brij in which from time to time a fish head emerges. He who what differently wants, must ask the keepers do messages and themselves what prepares. Guarding counts 20 per cent for that service. All Dutch prisoners abroad get 30 euro per month of the state. He who more necessary has, that can lend,'' say Uittenbosch.
Still more important than feeding and medical care mental health is, Uittenbosch say. Machiel do good that. He has established a sport programme for itself. That must try keep he full.'' Pedro Ruyzing are of the two Dutch who it continue already eight years in Bangkok Hilton. He got for life (100 years) after he was taken up in ` 95 with three kilos heroin. Friends have even made an internet site for him: www.prisonlife.Netherlands. Then he communicates: ,
In 1996, His Majesty the King Bhumibol Adulyadej or has given thailand me amnesty and descended 60 years of my sentence, therefore years still 33 to go.
It suffocates here of the drug addicts that shares one needle with thirty men, therefore it dies here of the HIV. Of the 1500 expatriate who sit here 60 per cent have been addicted. When I came in this inhuman hel rightly, I what can do heroin with people, saw there I start therefore not to.''
Ruyzing are the school example of people who continuing with much aid from outside,'' say Uittenbosch.Last summer Pedro for the second time have submitted a pardon. It can, however, up to 2006 last before it is decided.
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