Department of Corrections (Thailand)

The Department of Corrections (Thai: กรมราชทัณฑ์ กระทรวงยุติธรรม) is an agency of the Thai Ministry of Justice. Its mission is to keep prisoners in custody and rehabilitate them.[1] Its headquarters is in Nonthaburi Province.[2]

Prisons and prison population

Chiang Mai Women's Correctional Institution

The department manages 144 central prisons, provincial prisons, district prisons and other correctional facilities across Thailand,[3] housing some 41,694 female and 247,889 male prisoners.[4] More than half of that number were incarcerated for an "Offence Against Narcotics Law".[5]

References

  1. ↑ "Vision & Mission". Department of Corrections. Retrieved 19 January 2016.
  2. ↑ "Contact Us". Department of Corrections. Ministry of Justice. Retrieved 19 January 2016.
  3. ↑ "Prisons and Correctional Institutions". Department of Corrections. Retrieved 19 January 2016.
  4. ↑ "Number of Prisoners, by Gender". Department of Corrections. Retrieved 19 January 2016.
  5. ↑ "Number of Convicted Prisoners, by Type of Offences [sic]". Department of Corrections. Retrieved 19 January 2016.

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