Bangkok Prison Rape Chapter Summaries

To sum up the book in 5 sentences, it was a book about this guy who got caught smuggling Heroin from Thailand to Australia. He got caught in Thailand after they suspected this drug activity at the airport one of the previous times, and the Thailand police contacted the Australian police about it and wanted them to keep a close eye on him, so they did and then put him and his accomplice in a Bangkok prison, at first he got “life”.He spent most of his time in Bang Kwang, but anywhere he went the guards beat the prisoners, sometimes to death, and they had to wear chains around their ankles. There was a riot one time when this person in Building Four (one of the worst places) stabbed a guard and everyone in that building followed, him and Paul stayed in their cell fearing about what the guards would do, which was making them crawl through human feces. Heroin is a tremendous deal in the prisons as well and guards sold it to
Prison rape is very common gay or not, however, in Thailand prisons, it’s different and they aren’t very tolerant of homosexuality. The author didn’t participate in this, but it was known about, there was a pig farm inside the prison. “For a pack of cigarettes, a Bang Kwang pig would “love you long time.” Many Thais partook of this service, but many foreigners found it naturally repulsive.” (Fellows 164). One connection to this could be the rape of this woman in “That Was All” by Wakako Yamauchi. “I hated the feel of his hands” and “I suspected something sinister about their caresses.” (Yamauchi 1) The first quote was referring to this man named Suzuki-San one of the many bachelor friends of her father’s, she thought about him and that's why she told us this. In the second quote, “they” was referring to all of her dad’s bachelor friends. Rape is common, and can happen in all different forms, whether it’s with the opposite sex, same sex, or