Rachel
05-27-2007, 08:42 PM
THERE is a place near Bangkok where an angel and a devil go to work together.
There, one tries to give hope and comfort to the condemned, while the other used to end their lives with a machine gun.
Their workplace?
The forbidding Bang Kwang Central Prison near Bangkok.
But there is no clash between Ms Susan Aldous and Mr Chavoret Jaruboon , the angel and devil respectively.
They work at Bang Kwang, located in Nonthaburi province about 100km north of Bangkok.
The maximum-security prison is infamously dubbed the 'Bangkok Hilton' and also the 'Big Tiger' because those who enter seldom emerge alive.
Around 4,500 prisoners are resigned to a life of gloom and doom there, where the minimum sentence is a 30-year jail term.
Over the last 10 years, Ms Aldous has been a one-woman crusader, helping these prisoners in various ways.
The single mother, who has a 16-year-old daughter, regularly visits the prison - located down the street from her rented apartment - to counsel the inmates or to secure free medical equipment and better welfare treatment for them.
Full story - Electric New Paper (http://newpaper.asia1.com.sg/news/story/0,4136,131516,00.html)
There, one tries to give hope and comfort to the condemned, while the other used to end their lives with a machine gun.
Their workplace?
The forbidding Bang Kwang Central Prison near Bangkok.
But there is no clash between Ms Susan Aldous and Mr Chavoret Jaruboon , the angel and devil respectively.
They work at Bang Kwang, located in Nonthaburi province about 100km north of Bangkok.
The maximum-security prison is infamously dubbed the 'Bangkok Hilton' and also the 'Big Tiger' because those who enter seldom emerge alive.
Around 4,500 prisoners are resigned to a life of gloom and doom there, where the minimum sentence is a 30-year jail term.
Over the last 10 years, Ms Aldous has been a one-woman crusader, helping these prisoners in various ways.
The single mother, who has a 16-year-old daughter, regularly visits the prison - located down the street from her rented apartment - to counsel the inmates or to secure free medical equipment and better welfare treatment for them.
Full story - Electric New Paper (http://newpaper.asia1.com.sg/news/story/0,4136,131516,00.html)