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The Damage Done: Twelve Years Of Hell In A Bangkok Prison

The Damage Done: Twelve Years Of Hell In A Bangkok Prison

Author(s): Warren Fellows

Location(s): Bangkok

Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs

Era(s): 1970s/1980s

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In 1978, Warren Fellows was convicted in Thailand of heroin trafficking and was sentenced to life imprisonment. The Damage Done is his story of an unthinkable nightmare in a place where sewer rats and cockroaches are the only nutritious food, and where the worst punishment is the khun deo – solitary confinement, Thai style.

Fellows was certainly guilty of his crime, but he endured and survived human-rights abuses beyond imagination. This is not his plea for forgiveness, nor his denial of guilt: it is the story of an ordeal that no one would wish on their worst enemy. It is an essential read: heartbreaking, fascinating and impossible to put down.

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The author doesn’t ask for sympathy, and it is the disproportionate punishment that is truly shocking. An engrossing book of one’s man’s experience in jail.

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