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- * ABOUT MY ARREST
- * MY NORMAL DAY
- * THE FIRST FIVE DAYS
- * SKETCHES THAT HAVE BEEN “SMUGGLED” OUT OF BANGKWANG
- * OAK – HE’S MY STRENGHTH!
- * DAY OF RECKONING/JUDGEMENTDAY
- * FACTSHEET EXPLAINING THE UNFAIRNESS OF THE THAILAND – ENGLAND PRISONER TRANSFER TREATY
- * U.K. LAW RAISES SERIOUS HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUES
- * THE KING’S PARDON EXPLAINED
- * SEE HOW COMMONWEALTH AND OTHER COUNTRIES SUPPORT THEIR CITIZENS
- * WHY WOULD ANYONE WANT A LIFE SENTENCE?
- * STEVE’S SENTENCE REDUCED!!!!!
- * TREATMENT AND CONDITIONS IN THAI PRISONS
- * BANGKOK POST – “PRISONS ARE NO HOLIDAY CAMPS”
- * POWER CUTS WHICH LINE THE POCKET’S OF PRISON GUARDS
- * HORRENDOUS CRIMES
- * TORTURE
- * LIFE IS CHEAP?
- * 12 DEATH SENTENCES
- * THE BANGKWANG EXECUTIONER
- * THE PRISONER “BLUESHIRT TRUSTEE”
- * RIOT!!
- * ACCOMODATION IN BANGKWANG CENTRAL PRISON
- * CHRISTMAS IN BANGKWANG
- * LETTERS FROM INSIDE
- * WHY I VISIT PRISONERS IN BANGKWANG
- * WHY DID I START WRITING TO PRISONERS?
- * PRISONERS SEEKING CONTACT
- * NEW!!! Remission, Amnesty, Kings Pardon Explained
- * "Songkran”,Thai New Year in Prison
- * Man shackled for 14 Years
- * Sanitation? In a Thai prison
- * The importance of Prisoner Classification in a Thai Prison
- * Mercy? For English Teenager sentenced in Thailand
- * Rumours, Build up, and reality of 2006 Amnesty within Bangkwang Prison
- * Ladyboys, Transvestites, Third sex within Thai prison’s
- * The Health Department call at Bangkwang Prison “The cover up”
- * Prison Guards Answerable to No-One!
- Pimping off Ladyboys!!
- * Pirates within Prison
- * The Price of “Loss of Face”
- * 150 years for 1.3 grams of class 1 drugs and the Death Penalty
- * Visiting Bangkwang Prison, Human Zoo or a Blessing?
- * "Mystery Illness", cripples half of the 5000 Prisoner Population here in Bangkwang
- * BULLETS FLY AS TWO PRISONERS SHOT DEAD
- * MILITARY COUP WELCOMED BY PRISONERS
- * FOOD FOR THOUGHT
- * 21st CENTURY PUNISHMENTS
- * CAN’T SEE THE WOOD FOR THE GRASSES!
- * ‘R’ IS FOR ‘RACISM’
- *Steven Michael Willcox application to the High Court for Judicial Review to be heard on the 23rd April 2009
- *PRISON DIET SUPPLEMENTED BY RAT
- *New Years Lunch “Jungle Squirrels”
- *Death Sentence Reduced
- *Christmas is not the best of time of year to be Imprisoned in the Bangkok Hilton
- *How much a Thai Prison costs me! (A precise Daily Account)
- *The last Executioner (Missing Target)
- *“4 Year Anniversary” And now eligible to transfer to a UK Prison
- *Imprisoned in a giant oven (Na Rorn/Hot Season)
- *“Pop your Clogs” (sleeping with a dead man)
- *2007 My Transfer to the UK delayed
- *(2007) Wifes Visa rejected, my transfer to the UK approved. (Sympathise?, My Arse?)
- *“Spirit lifted”, family visit from UK 2007
- *Government illegally block this web site
- *Murdered by the State
- *Oak’s 4th Birthday
- *Going Home?
- *Going home, “Farewell Bangkok Hilton”
- *Amnesty and Home at last!! Well almost!
- *New Year, New Hope!!
- *Somebody to write to?
- *Answers to your Questions
- *What is the cost to the British Tax Payer
- *Life not so unkind to me after all
- *Judicial Review explained (My case on its way to the High Court)
- *Wife’s Visa refused, (Our fight continues!)
- *A Dream becomes a reality
- *Judicial Review granted in the High Court (Appeal Grounds)
- *Cozy arrangement between Drug Pushers and Police
- *What to expect at a trial (In a Thai Court)
By Sasja Bögemann
Why did I start writing to prisoners? I saw this documentary on prisons in the U.S.A. about a year ago and it shocked me how the prisoners were being treated and how the justice systems fails in a very substantial amount of the cases. The thing that shocked me most, was that in a country as the U.S.A., nowadays, with all the technology we gained in the last couple of decades, still innocent people were being executed.
I did some searching on the internet, and I came across a Dutch group who wrote to prisoners all over te world. I joined them, and not long after that I got three addresses of men on Death Row in Florida. Soon I learned through the people in my internet group that there were a lot of European people imprisoned in Thailand and that circumstances were even worse over there. I searched for information about Thai Prisons and I read the book of Pedro Ruyzing, a Dutch taxi driver who had been in Bangkwang on drug charges and had been imprisoned for 8 years. I finished the book in no time and decided that, although I thought 3 pen pals was enough already, there was room for one more in Bangkwang.
About the same time I got an e-mail from one of the members of my internet group that she had been given an address by Kay Danes of the Foreign Prisoners Support Service of someone who was having a hard time in Bangkwang and needed friends, and that was Steve.
I have been writing to Steve for half a year now. I hope that he will get the possibility of serving the rest of his sentence in England very soon, because I don't think anyone is able to stay for 33 years in Bangkwang under those horrible circumstances and get out sane -or even alive...-. I know that what Steve has done was wrong and I don't think he should not be punished, but the punishment must be in relation to the crime and that is absolutely not the case here.
Please help by signing Steve’s petition. It takes 30 seconds and will really help. Please forward this Website to all your friends and ask them to sign his Petition
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