BANGKOK -- Thai law-enforcement officials are considering early parole as a way to stem the COVID-19 outbreaks in the country's notoriously jam-packed prisons if current rapid inoculation efforts fail to control the situation, but it is not known if last year's pro-democracy protesters and other political prisoners will be given access to any such program.
Along with construction worker campsites and factories, Thai prisons are giving rise to viral clusters as a third wave of the pandemic roils the country. Of 107,563 cases reported since March 23, 16,153, or 15%, are among convicts and pretrial detainees. 882 inmates tested positive on Tuesday.
