No sunlight penetrated the blackness and prisoners were onlyĪllowed out for five minutes each morning to wash and choke down the The prisoners feared Building Two the most.īuilding Two housed some of the punishment 'darkrooms',Ĭoncrete hellholes big enough for 10 people, but usually crammed with up

He was inconsolable for an hour, not because of the pain, but moreīut if the vile, over-crowded communal cell was bad, there were Straight to the sewer, a rat sprung out and bit his foot. One morning, as Paul squatted over a hole in the floor that went They'd come out at night in packs and attack, biting chunks Their disgusting bodies were thick and slimy, as if oozing some They had long snouts and fangs and wicked eyes that glowed in theĭark. Small cats, they were easily the ugliest, most frightening animals At night, the mosquitoes were persistent.īut the most horrifying of all were the sewer rats. Would bring the ants out of the woodwork. toilet paper was not allowed in the prison.Īfter several days the smell was so thick there was scarcely anyĬockroaches crawled on everything, and during the day the heat There was a hole in the corner which served as a toilet. Which sometimes were packed with up to 30 prisoners. We soon discovered that we would spend 18 hours a day in our rooms WE WERE placed in a tiny room which stank of wounds. This the story of his long journey to the horrors of the Bangkok Interrogation he was thrown into the vile Maha Chai jail to await trial. In a book about his experiences, The Damage Done, Warren recounts Horrors he endured went beyond mere punishment. He came close to death several times.įellows was guilty and says he deserved his conviction, but the He endured 12 years of frightful mental and physical torture and Jails, ending up in the notorious Bang Kwang, better known as the Warren, then 25, and Paul were locked up in a series of appalling Had been watching him for some time - pounced. In October, 1978, he went to Thailand with a friend, Australianīoxing star Paul Hayward, to pick up more heroin when Thai police - who WARREN Fellows spent four years as a drugs courier, smuggling heroin and cocaine from Asia for sale in his native Australia. APA style: Rats, 'roaches, stinking sewage and ritual beatings.Rats, 'roaches, stinking sewage and ritual beatings. MLA style: 'Rats, 'roaches, stinking sewage and ritual beatings.

The damage done by warren fellows