Pre-pandemic, convicts could volunteer to clear the sewers of Thailand's capital — which sits only 1.5 metres above sea level and is perennially beset by flooding — earning time off their sentences.
He is one of roughly 80 inmates shipped in from three prisons to an eastern Bangkok suburb and set to labour, earning money and a day off their sentences for each day worked. They work through the day, fuelled by donations from grateful shopkeepers pleased to see the drains outside their stores finally cleared.
And American inmates think they got it rough