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Mon 30 May, 2005 06:00 pm
Underwear shortage strikes Thai prisons
at 13:15 on May 30, 2005, EST.
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - Female inmates in Thailand's prisons are so short of underwear that the head of the main women's prison appealed to the public for donations - new or recycled.
The director of the Central Women's Prison, Ankhanueng Lebnak, said Friday that the government refuses to provide a budget to buy each female prisoner more than two pairs of underpants each year because they are considered a luxury item, the official Thai News Agency reported.
An appeal for assistance yielded donations of 74,010 new and used garments, and Ankhanueng began distributing the extra underwear to prisons across the country on Friday, the report said.
Thailand, with a population of 65 million people, holds more than 250,000 prisoners, about one-fifth of whom are women. The prison population has grown dramatically in recent years because of convictions for drug offences, and most facilities hold many more convicts than their planned capacity.
Well, with a population of 50,000 in women's prisons, they have enough from the donations to give a total of 3½ pairs of underware to each inmate. The fact that they have a total population of 65 million with only 74,010 pairs of underwear being donated seems to indicate that underwear is, indeed, a very valuable commodity. The inmates are probably using them to barter.
Your math skills are beter than mine.....
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