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00:01This is a Bangkwang Central Prison.

00:04It's a man's prison in Mountamburi Province, Thailand,

00:08on the Chai Prai River, about 11 km north of Bangkok.

00:14Bangkwang is the site of the man's death row

00:18and the execution chamber of Thailand.

00:23This prison contains around 6,000 inmates.

00:28This prison houses many foreign prisoners, mostly for drug smuggling.

00:36All prisoners are required to wear leg irons for the first 3 months of their sentences.

00:45This prison got its nickname Big Tiger by the Thais,

00:50because it prowled and ate people.

00:54The king Rama envisioned this prison, and it was created in 1927-31.

01:03It was built not to be an ordinary prison, but a penitentiary for the worst offenders,

01:11who are awaiting sentences of the Appeal Court, or a Supreme Court.

01:18It became well known around Thailand and Asia as one of the harshest prisons in the world,

01:24with conditions that caused many prisoners to lose either their life or their obscenity.

01:30The most fascinating aspect of this prison lifestyle was an internal class system called cheat system,

01:39in it prisoners received food according to their standings with their cantina,

01:45where only one bowl of rice and vegetable food was given free.

01:49Everything else had to be purchased.

01:54As a result, wealthiest prisoners made another inmate their servants,

02:00who worked for them for food.

02:03In the West, this jail is best known under the name of Bangkok Hilton.

02:10The