Four at large following prison break

Provincial prison chief Tin Sovanny said five prisoners had sawed off the bars of their prison cell at 3am on Saturday, using a blade they had kept hidden in their cells. One prisoner was found hiding in the forest near the prison, but the remaining ...

Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/38799/four-at-large-following-prison-break/

Complaint to be filed in suspicious prison death

A Banteay Meanchey woman is planning to file a complaint against the provincial prison director for his alleged role in the suspicious death of her stepdaughter on Saturday. Khon Thy said her stepdaughter, Sok Chanthan, 27, had suffered from chronic asthma since she was 7 years ...

Niem Chheng and Martin de Bourmont
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/complaint-be-filed-suspicious-prison-death

Private prison breaks ground

Ground was officially broken yesterday on a new facility at Prey Sar prison that will soon enable the upper crust of the Kingdom’s underworld to buy their way out of overcrowded jails and into the relative luxury of a privately run institution. ...

Mech Dara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/private-prison-breaks-ground

Prison director denies abuse

The chief of the Banteay Meanchey provincial prison has denied allegations of inmate torture, amid calls from a local rights official for an investigation. Prison director Oung Siphan, through a clarification letter issued on Monday, challenged a foreign radio broadcast that alleged provincial prison officials tortured ...

Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/36996/prison-director-denies-abuse/

Prison denies radio access to inmates

Inmates at Prey Sar prison in Phnom Penh will no longer be able to listen to the radio, according to a social media post by a jailed opposition member, which is an apparent violation of the law. ...

May Titthara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/35818/prison-denies-radio-access-to-inmates/

Prison numbers jump 20 percent

Cambodia’s already swollen prison population leapt by more than 20 percent last year, according to the Ministry of Interior’s annual report, which acknowledged the influx has caused “serious challenges” with overcrowding, and revealed one-third of inmates are in pre-trial detention. ...

Mech Dara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/prison-numbers-jump-20-percent

Prison rates soaring in Cambodia

Cambodia’s incarceration rate has doubled in the past 10 years, according to statistics obtained from the General Department of Prisons. Department spokesman Nouth Savna said that in 2006 there were just 9,634 people behind bars; as of earlier this week, that figure had increased 125 ...

Jack Davies
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/prison-rates-soaring-cambodia

ICRC to check migrant abuse

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has been asked to investigate cases of mistreatment of Cambodian migrant workers imprisoned in foreign jails, the Foreign Ministry announced this week. ...

Ven Rathavong
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/31625/icrc-to-check-migrant-abuse/

ICRC offers prisons help

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is willing to offer assistance in future prison building projects, and in the preparation of prison management policies that are in line with international standards, the National Police website said on Tuesday. According to the website, the ICRC ...

Taing Vida
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/30054/icrc-offers-prisons-help/

New facility for young offenders

The Ministry of Social Affairs yesterday confirmed it would construct a new national facility to rehabilitate child offenders. The news follows a meeting last Thursday when spokesman Touch Channy told attendees that the new centre to detain juvenile offenders would be built following the recent adoption ...

Kong Meta and Erin Handley
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/new-facility-young-offenders

Prisons granted more funds to develop libraries

Cambodian’s prison libraries are set to receive an extra $600,000 in funding from the French Agency for Development and literacy NGO Sipar, according to a statement released yesterday. ...

Ven Rathavong
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/24670/prisons-granted-more-funds-to-develop-libraries/

New year pardons delayed to Visak Bochea day

The Ministry of Justice has announced that Royal pardons and reductions of prison sentences have been pushed back to Visak Bochea Day in May, as a result of prisons not offering enough information about potential candidates. ...

Ros Chanveasna
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/23812/new-year-pardons-delayed-to-visak-bochea-day/

Pardons unlikely for Khmer new year

The Ministry of Justice has announced it is unlikely that any Royal pardons granting inmates amnesty or reductions in prison sentences will be given ahead of the Khmer New Year, according to a ministry spokesman yesterday. ...

Ros Chanveasna
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/23638/pardons-unlikely-for-khmer-new-year/

Pardons being processed for Khmer New Year

The government is considering candidates who are eligible for Royal pardons and sentence reductions ahead of Khmer New Year. Nut Savenea, spokesman for the Ministry of Interior’s General Department of Prisons, said discussions about pardons are ongoing. ...

Ros Chanveasna
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/23585/pardons-being-processed-for-khmer-new-year/

New prison for Pursat as inmate population grows

Interior Minister Sar Kheng announced yesterday that his ministry plans to construct a prison capable of holding 7,000 inmates on an 800 hectare plot of land in Pursat province. ...

Ven Rathavong
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/23144/new-prison-for-pursat-as-inmate-population-grows/

No reply to request for help for addicts in jail

The Health Ministry has yet to respond to a request from the Interior Ministry last week seeking assistance in dealing with drug abuse in the country’s prisons and rehabilitation centers, Interior Ministry secretary of state Nuth Sa An said yesterday. ...

Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/22807/no-reply-to-request-for-help-for-addicts-in-jail/

Inmates charged with selling drugs

The provincial court in Tbong Khmum province has charged four inmates with selling drugs in Trapaing Phlong prison after police found a bottle of methamphetamine pills hidden in the prison farm. ...

May Titthara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/21687/inmates-charged-with-selling-drugs/

Interior Ministry warns prison officials not to use violence on inmates

A senior official from the Ministry of Interior on Thursday warned all prison chiefs and guards stop to use or not to use all forms of violence illegally on inmates in order to ensure the respect of human rights at prisons. ...

The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/interior-ministry-warns-prison-officials-not-to-use-violence-on-inmates-9124

Prison chiefs shuffled; PJ prison to relocate

The Interior Ministry on Thursday reassigned the directors of three of the country’s prisons during a ceremony at Phnom Penh City Hall, where it was also announced that the city’s minimum-security PJ Prison would itself be relocated. ...

Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/prison-chiefs-shuffled-pj-prison-to-relocate-103863/

Ratanakkiri prison chief issues warning to staff

Embattled Ratanakkiri prison director Tin Sovanny yesterday issued a warning – but no lawsuit – against staff members who have accused him of a slew of crimes, including having sex with an inmate, using prison land to build a house and using prison labour for ...

Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ratanakkiri-prison-chief-issues-warning-staff

Prison population swells

Cambodia’s badly overcrowded prison population leapt by nearly 20 per cent in the first 10 months of this year, government data show, raising serious health concerns.The figures, released by the Interior Ministry’s general department of prisons yesterday, show that there were 17,522 prisoners in jails ...

Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/prison-population-swells

Ratanakkiri prison boss fires back at accusers

The Ratanakkiri prison director accused of a litany of crimes by his underlings has fired back, denying their reports and accusing them of drug-taking, laziness and running illegal timber businesses. ...

Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ratanakkiri-prison-boss-fires-back-accusers

Ratanakkiri prison director accused of abuses

Dozens of officials at Ratanakkiri Provincial Prison have called for the director of the facility to be removed, citing a wide range of violations, including having sex with a female inmate, permitting unsanctioned prison labour and pocketing money paid in exchange for benefits. ...

Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ratanakkiri-prison-director-accused-abuses

Prisoner’s pardon fails to outpace her death

A Vietnamese woman imprisoned on child sex trafficking charges in 2009 received a humanitarian royal pardon last month, but only after she had been dead for more than a month, the rights NGO Licadho said yesterday. ...

Taing Vida
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/prisoners-pardon-fails-outpace-her-death

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