book about thai prison

[pagey3]

does anyone know the name of this book?:
its the true story of a who got caught smuggling drugs and was put in a thai prison. he says at the beginning of the book that he knows he did wrong and should do time for it, but he wanted to write about the inhumane conditions of thai jail.
like he was kept in a basket for weeks so his limbs deformed, and they were made to stand in the sewage pit up to their noses for hours on end in the heat...
yeah gross i know but it was a really gripping read and can't remember what its called!
thanks!

[Scotman84]

Could be Midnight Express ?

[pagey3]

thanks scotman, but no I found out its called 'damage done'
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/184018275X/ 026-4778034-5109251?v=glance&n=266239

great read by the way but not for the faint hearted!

[Scotman84]

Ok Pagey - may give it a go myself !!

[Binky]

If you are interested in that subject, then there was a brilliant BBC drama on about 14 years ago called "The Bangkok Hilton" starring Nicole Kidman and also there is another book out currently called "Forget You Had a Daughter", a true story about a woman who spent several years in a Thai jail for drugs smuggling, and also a year or so in jail in Britain afterwards.

[loopyc]

the damage done. brilliant book the conditions those prisoners are keep in is disgusting.

[mycats]

I read "foget you had a daughter" last year and frankly got to the end of it and thought "well who cares?"

[reg73]

another similar story is called "marching powder", and is utterly incredible. British guy gets caught smuggling cocaine, and thrown into lawless and corrupt prison where inmates have to buy their own cells or sleep in an open courtyard. Well worth a read.

[Peter Pedant]

An early entrant from the seventies is by the fourteen year old incarcerated in Turkey - big child prison system there - by Timothy Davey co written with his dippy mother who put him up to it and is called something like
an alternative childhood - around 1974