Prisoner Visit and Rape issue in Thai prison

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3.1 Prisoner visits

3.1.1 General visit

Prison allows the family and friends of the prisoner to visit according to day and time schedule. The general visit day is from Monday to Friday excluding weekend. And general visit time range is from 8.30 - 12.00 in the morning and from 13.00 - 15.00 in the afternoon. Each prisoner is allowed to have a visit once a day for fifteen to twenty minutes. Prisoners, who are being punished for bad behavior, will not be allowed to have visits until the punishment is complete.

3.1.1.1 Visit Regulations

All visitors, who want to attend a prisoner's visit, must comply with the followed regulations. No visit will be granted to anyone who fails to meet these regulations:

Visitors must polite clothing. Males must wear long trousers and females may wear skirts not shorter than knee length.

Visitors must not be drunk and must carry and prohibited material into the prison.

Visitors must show some official form of identification.

Visitors must be prisoner's relatives; however, visit is permitted if appropriate reason is provided.

Visitors must collect a visit card and wait for their visit round.

Visitors must not be ex-prisoner, who is released less than six months previously.

The prison officials have a legal right to refuse entry to, remove from the premises, and dismiss visitors anytime, if it is necessary to do so.

3.1.1.2 Leaving object and necessity for prisoners

Visitors are able to leave any objects or provide any necessity for prisoners to use or consume; however, leaving objects directly for prisoners without permission is against the law. As prison must protect against the smuggling of prohibited articles, the prison has a provision for accepting thing left by visitors. However, prisoners can achieve objects from visitors through...