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3dGameMan
06-06-2005, 07:43 AM
Underwear shortage strikes female Thai prisons: ~source (http://news.yahoo.com/s/cpress/20050530/ca_pr_on_od/thailand_inmates_underwear%3b_ylt=A0LaS8.YQqJCOUIA mwPFM1IB%3b_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl)

BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - Female inmates in Thailand's prisons are so short of underwear that the head of the main women's prison appealed to the public for donations - new or recycled.

The director of the Central Women's Prison, Ankhanueng Lebnak, said Friday that the government refuses to provide a budget to buy each female prisoner more than two pairs of underpants each year because they are considered a luxury item, the official Thai News Agency reported.

An appeal for assistance yielded donations of 74,010 new and used garments, and Ankhanueng began distributing the extra underwear to prisons across the country on Friday, the report said.

Thailand, with a population of 65 million people, holds more than 250,000 prisoners, about one-fifth of whom are women. The prison population has grown dramatically in recent years because of convictions for drug offences, and most facilities hold many more convicts than their planned capacity.
NieLingren
06-06-2005, 07:45 AM
lol thats funny :smokin
CyberGuy
06-06-2005, 08:24 AM
That is the downside of prisons. It costs lots of money to support all those convicts. Its pretty bad when the justice system has to turn to charity to support keeping criminals locked up. :Nope

Just one more fine example of why it is far better to be an upstanding citizen rather than being a criminal. Particularly in Thailand.
NieLingren
06-06-2005, 08:41 AM
That is the downside of prisons. It costs lots of money to support all those convicts. Its pretty bad when the justice system has to turn to charity to support keeping criminals locked up. :Nope

Just one more fine example of why it is far better to be an upstanding citizen rather than being a criminal. Particularly in Thailand.


what they should do is get them to work make stuff and then the prisons sell it and buy stuff like this and food and so on
CyberGuy
06-06-2005, 08:55 AM
what they should do is get them to work make stuff and then the prisons sell it and buy stuff like this and food and so on

That is an excellent idea. They have a workforce of 250K right there that can be used as a productive force in their society.

The downside to it is that the prison officials will pocket all of the proceeds from these sales and these women will still end up running around without their undies. I don't doubt that there is more money handed to these prisons than they are letting on. Corruption happens everywhere and unless they are very tightly controlled, prison systems can be one of the most corrupt places of them all.
NieLingren
06-06-2005, 09:02 AM
true and more money the prisons make the more money the gards want :Sigh
egarrard
06-06-2005, 09:22 AM
Just let them go commando. If they don't want the grime, they shouldn't do the crime. :thumb
wazman
06-06-2005, 10:33 AM
That is an excellent idea. They have a workforce of 250K right there that can be used as a productive force in their society.

The downside to it is that the prison officials will pocket all of the proceeds from these sales and these women will still end up running around without their undies. I don't doubt that there is more money handed to these prisons than they are letting on. Corruption happens everywhere and unless they are very tightly controlled, prison systems can be one of the most corrupt places of them all.

Let 'em manufacture their own underwear.
CyberGuy
06-06-2005, 11:19 AM
Let 'em manufacture their own underwear.

Another excellent Idea!
NieLingren
06-06-2005, 11:45 AM
Another excellent Idea!


lol i like that idea better :thumb