14 Years a Prisoner

A Memoir of survival inside Thailand’s brutal prison system.

“Fourteen years.”

I didn’t understand the language the judge was speaking. I understood the number. That was the moment my old life ended.

For the next several years, I fought to survive inside Thailand’s most notorious prisons. I lived in overcrowded cells where hundreds of prisoners slept shoulder to shoulder. Violence was always a possibility. Disease spread quickly. Corruption touched every aspect of prison life, and even silence had a price. I witnessed things that few people will ever see, and that I will never forget.

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