•Ms Orasom leads writing workshops in prisons and has already published two collections of these stories, “Facekook” -- “kook” meaning prison in Thai — that have sold several thousand copies.
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•For example,
•The stories are familiar — of ordinary women sentenced to years in prison for a handful of yaba pills.
As a young penniless divorcee, one inmate wrote of how she sold the drug to raise her son, while another recounts how her foreign boyfriend manipulated and used her as a mule.