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Prison Story from Thailand- “Bangkok Hilton Hotel”

Thailand’s Bang Kwang Prison, aka "The Bangkok Hilton", is the most notorious prison in the world. Feature films and novels have tried to imagine the horrible existence of the prisoners inside, but the reality within the walls has never been filmed – until now. After two years of negotiations the prison bosses have allowed a BBC crew to film the secret world of Bang Kwang – and the reality proves stranger than fiction.The programme tells the human stories of prisoners struggling to stay sane, and of Thai staff struggling to cope.

Prisoner Michael Connell, a thin and frail supermarket worker from Manchester, is only 19. His lawyers say he has the mental age of someone several years younger, but he talks clearly of the daily life in jail.The only foreigner in a dorm of 1,000, he survives by teaching his fellow inmates English. He got 99 years for smuggling 3,400 e-pills into the country, where few can afford them, and he won’t explain why. Connell is nervous as the new boy; his last words to camera are "even David Beckham couldn’t get me out of here…"

Veteran British prisoner Andrew Hawke talks freely of his foolish decision to smuggle heroin after an offer from a stranger in Amsterdam, and takes viewers on a tour – pointing out how the shackles of the death row prisoners are welded on permanently. Prisoner Amporn is waiting to be killed, and his voice shakes as he explains how he’ll be given only two hours’ notice before he dies. The executioner tours the execution room, demonstrating the new technique of injections. Inside, it’s still splattered with the blood of those killed by a bullet; the bodies are taken next door to a tiny Buddhist temple for a final blessing.The monk who guards the urns of the unclaimed explains how dying by execution is a "blessing in disguise".

However, mistakes are made – one Thai inmate called "Chicago Pete" tells of bloody riots and how he heard his best friend’s screams as he was dragged to the chamber. The jail’s transvestites, or lady boys, share quarters. One, who smuggled drugs to pay for a breast augmentation, now works for the prison TV station as a make-up artist and waits for a royal pardon so that she can finish her operations and become a real woman. In hospital, a man dying of Aids lies shaking on his bed; another stares vacantly into the camera as the doctor explains how Thai society refuses to donate medicine as they think the prisoners deserve their suffering.

The corrections department seems determined to change the nature of Bang Kwang; they are reformers, but they’re fighting against a tide of new prisoners and a tiny budget. Khun Nattee, the director of prisons, wants this to be a warning to English tourists:

"Thai prisons are tough – you don’t want to be in Bang Kwang."

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Gordon Koschwitz (German) is innocent. He is imprisoned in Bang Kwang “Bangkok Hilton”. He is on death row and he needs all the help he can get.

Gordon was arrested October of 2004 in Chiang Mai.
A friend asked him to house a man from Switzerland and he accepted.
Next morning his guest was found dead on his premises.
Gordon immediately called an ambulance and the police.
His guest had already got into trouble with the Thai’s in the neighbourhood.

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