Thailand mulls teaching convicts English and sending them to work abroad

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Thailand mulls teaching convicts English and sending them to work abroad

 

 

Thailand's prison problem: Teach convicts English and send them off to work abroad!

 

Thailand has come up with an ingenious way to solve their prison overcrowding problem and help the labour market.

 

The highest authorities in the land are coming together to export convicts. 

 

The country's jails are full to bursting with criminals and many have been deemed safe for release of one kind and another. 

 

So the plan is to train them better in all the varied skills they will need so they can reenter society and work. 

 

While most will end up in valuable positions in the Thai labour market some will inevitably end up abroad. 

 

Thus prisons and vocational training courses could soon feature classes in English or other languages that would aid convicts in landing plum employment abroad. 

 

Yesterday in Bangkok amid much razzamatazz, Justice minister Somsak Thepsuthin and his counterpart at the Labour Ministry MR Chatumongkol Sonakul signed an agreement of cooperation on the scheme. 

 

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[ThailandRyan]

Can you think of anything more ridiculous.  They do not want there own people in their own country because they will continue to be incarcerated time and time again.  So instead lets teach them English and send our problem children away to work as laborers.  Is that not how Australia was initially formed....I may be wrong but I thought it was where convicts were sent.  Maybe the Thai's can team up with there Chinese counterparts and a new Great wall of Thailand can be built...

 

Besides that I do not think you can get a visa to go elsewhere if your a convicted Felon..

Edited July 21, 2020 by ThailandRyan

[keith101]

Again with this BS , Thailand doesnt want criminals from other countries SO WHY do you think they will take in yours .

[rvaviator]

What needs to be done is to buy an island somewhere .. and start a new 'Australia' ... If Australia managed to base its foundation on criminals ... Clearly this can be replicated, just need to find a suitable island .. ????

[tifino]

looks like they've recycled their yellow shirts, to make multiple more yellow ties! 

 

oh wait! - they're the first haggle of crims to be exported...

[ThailandRyan]

1 minute ago, rvaviator said:

What needs to be done is to buy an island somewhere .. and start a new 'Australia' ... If Australia managed to base its foundation on criminals ... Clearly this can be replicated, just need to find a suitable island .. ????

Maybe one that sinks every ten years and then rises again so that it can continually be re-populated with murders, drug sellers, and those corrupt Government officials such as the ones thinking about this stupid plan...You can not make this stuff up, but then everyday they open there mouths and insert there feet.  Damned crazy uneducated people who think the world revolves around Thailand.  Yet I would expect no less and everyday I have several good laughs at what is happening around me.  Keeps my mind active and extends my life by enjoying silly things...

[anchadian]

I nearly choked on my cornflakes.

[Eibot]

Thailand such ask their big friends if they have some extra space in their "re-education camps".

 

Bug success over there.

[Somtamnication]

Please enunciate the "P".  Hold your hands uP, not Hold your hands U. 

 

[Dmaxdan]

18 minutes ago, rvaviator said:

What needs to be done is to buy an island somewhere .. and start a new 'Australia' ... If Australia managed to base its foundation on criminals ... Clearly this can be replicated, just need to find a suitable island .. ????

How about Alcatraz? It wouldn't even need that much modification.  

[Phuketshrew]

Two of Thailand's greatest exports, hookers and convicts. Maybe they could train the convicts to become pimps - surely onto a winner there.

[ChipButty]

Teach them English, should make good politicians 

[lamyai3]

What could go wrong with such a well thought out scheme? 

[colinneil]

So are they going to send a couple of ministers abroad?

[Kadilo]

“ landing plum Employment abroad”

 

They couldnt even get a job picking plums. 

[Creasy]

Ummmm. Ummmmm.  What country is so desperate for migrants that will accept people with criminal records ?

[Madgee]

It's snippets of Thai news like this I send to a good friend in the UK. He loves the entertainment of it! 

As I tell him, you just can't make stuff like this up and it's real!

 

He understands why I love Thailand ... It's a laugh everyday! 

 

Now I've got to explain it to my dog. ???? 

[ChipButty]

1 minute ago, Madgee said:

It's snippets of Thai news like this I send to a good friend in the UK. He loves the entertainment of it! 

As I tell him, you just can't make stuff like this up and it's real!

 

He understands why I love Thailand ... It's a laugh everyday! 

 

Now I've got to explain it to my dog. ???? 

Maybe your dog understands it better than you

[PatOngo]

Oh, the brilliant minds that run this country, is it any wonder they believe they are the centre of the universe! ???? 

[smedly]

59 minutes ago, webfact said:

Thailand mulls teaching convicts English and sending them to work abroad

Criminals in Thailand are not always convicts

 

 

one way ticket to slave labour 

 

This is all a "big joke" right ? 

[George Bowman]

58 minutes ago, webfact said:

The highest authorities in the land are coming together to export convicts. 

Oh, now that's a good one...

 

[smedly]

should be teaching them chinese or perhaps russian, I believe both countries still operate labour camps for criminals

[ThailandRyan]

12 minutes ago, smedly said:

Criminals in Thailand are not always convicts

 

 

one way ticket to slave labour 

 

This is all a "big joke" right ? 

No have not heard from "Big Joke" lately at all, ooops wrong OP

[Snow Leopard]

They are copying the Chinese. They do this already on their overseas construction contracts. If you are a construction company in the west its very hard to compete with a Chinese company that has free labour. 

[jvs]

1 hour ago, rvaviator said:

What needs to be done is to buy an island somewhere .. and start a new 'Australia' ... If Australia managed to base its foundation on criminals ... Clearly this can be replicated, just need to find a suitable island .. ????

Since this is a funny thread,let me be first,have the Mexicans pay for it!

[Jane Dough]

1 hour ago, anchadian said:

I nearly choked on my cornflakes.

:)

 

R

[bluesofa]

23 minutes ago, smedly said:

should be teaching them chinese or perhaps russian, I believe both countries still operate labour camps for criminals

You beat me to it! I was looking at it from a different angle:

 

1 hour ago, webfact said:

Thailand mulls teaching convicts English and sending them to work abroad

When I saw the headline above, I was imaging teaching them Engrish and sending them to Siberia.

I was using bureaucrat's logic.

 

[RichardColeman]

1 hour ago, webfact said:

Thus prisons and vocational training courses could soon feature classes in English or other languages that would aid convicts in landing plum employment abroad. 

Only in picking them plums

[RichardColeman]

1 hour ago, ThailandRyan said:

Can you think of anything more ridiculous. 

I dunno, teaching them gun repair and gun reconditioning has to be up there somewhere

[richard_smith237]

They're taking all this ‘good guys in, bad guys out’ malarkey a little bit far aren’t they????

 

 

Australia ‘ll ‘av ‘em !!! (can’t quite believe we’re three pages into this thread and no one else has brought that up !)