With attitude and tattoos, hope is delivered to inmates
A Canadian who works for part of the year so she can spend the remaining months visiting foreign prisoners in Bang Kwang finds satisfaction in bringing a measure of normalcy into the lives of people many would rather forget
- Published: 12/02/2012 at 03:51 AM
- Newspaper section: Spectrum
Heather Luna-Rose works 12 hour days, driving taxis around a small island off the west coast of Canada. She does this every day for eight months, just so she can spend the rest of her year in Thailand talking to foreign men in prison.
LEFT TO LANGUISH: Inmates at the notorious Bang Kwang prison in Nonthaburi province are regarded as being among the country’s worst criminals. PHOTO:PATTANAPONG HIRUNARD
A self-styled social justice activist, Ms Luna-Rose visits foreign inmates at Bangkok's maximum security prison, Bang Kwang. From Monday to Friday she talks to the inmates, one per day, for 90 minutes.
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