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A Drug addict in Shar-e-Naw park, Who agreed to let me shoot him after paying him a dollar (don't judge me, i had to shoot him)
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Giselle is a 'Glam Addict' Giselle (enhanced) on a 'Poppy Parker' body
Top - Mattel
Skirt - Clear-Lan
Necklace - ?
Phil was on the phone to his nan tonight giving her a crash course in bookmarking websites from the internet - she's 81 and has just gone 'on-line' - how cool is that. Anyhow, I took a few shots whilst he was on the phone - they didn't turn out so hot, so after dinner (veggie chilli) we did a re-enactment with photographic style based on Mr Gilles Pinault - who, in our opinion, is a photographic genius - check him out - he's in our contact list
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Vivitar 285HV zoomed in full hence the vignette type effect, at 1/16th power with an ND gel on top. Fired using Gadget Infinity Catus wireless triggers, from on top of a pint glass on the table to left off the picture. Pam sat snapping away on the floor with the G5 set manually 1/60th f4.5.
Photoshop, S curve, hue adjustment layer blended 40%, flattened and then some reasonably heavy unsharp mask something like: Amount to 50%, Radius to 100% and the Threshold to 0. I think the important bit it Threshold 0 to increase local contrast, but don't quote me on that.
This is my stepson Mark, he is addicted to drugs and alcohol and lives on the streets of New York. He started taking drugs at 13 and is now 24. He has been in more rehabs than I can count. He is slipping away from us and we are helpless.When we send him money to get to rehab he uses it for a fix. He is not only killing himself, he is killing his family. All we can do is pray. If you know someone with an addiction, do all you can to save them.
Benburb Street [originally Barrack Street] was the location for the first Dublin Corporation housing scheme in the late nineteenth century. Because of a desire to keep public housing as low cost as possible the Corporation constructed homes in areas with long standing social problems and as they did not address the ongoing anti-social issues problems remain today in many city centre locations. Way back in the 1830’s the area around Royal Barracks [now Collins Barracks] in Dublin had a very bad reputation as was described in local newspapers as follows “scenes of riot, drunkenness and gross indecency” were common place, and that the area was home to many prostitutes but lacking in “persons of decent and moral habits”.
Up until recently the area was a very active red-light district area but the prostitutes now appear to have been replaced by drug addicts and the homeless and the current anti-social problems are now so bad that the historic “Croppies Acre” park is now closed to the public.
The Office of Public Works (OPW), which is charged with maintaining the park, said in a public statement that they had been forced to permanently padlock the gates because of public health fears. "Specialist cleaners are employed to remove hazardous material such as used syringes," said an OPW spokeswoman. "However, as resources are not sufficient to keep the park clear of dangerous materials at all times and thus safe for public access, the park has had to be closed to the public." Anti-social behaviour was also threatening public safety, according to the OPW, which said it doesn't have the manpower or money to put security at the site. Drug-users and street drinkers continue to scale the walls of the park, near Heuston Station, which is strewn with dirty hypodermic needles, broken glass, beer cans, wine cartons and old clothes.
~ So hold your body, hold your body strong in these winds of life
May I find you, may we sit together when we're gray and old, on cloud nine ~
~Cloud Nine - Ben Howard ~
Klong Prem Central prison (Thai: คลองเปรม; RTGS: Khlong Prem) is a maximum security prison in Chatuchak District, Bangkok, Thailand. The prison has several separate sections. The compound houses up to 20,000 inmates. Within the perimeter of the compound are the Women's Central Prison, often referred to as "Lard Yao" or "Lard Yao women's prison". There is the Central Correction Institution for Drug Addicts (also known as "Bambat Phiset") "Bangkok Special Prison", and the Central Correctional Hospital. The Lard Yao men's section takes custody of male offenders whose sentence term is not over 25 years. As of 2002 the men's section held 1,158 foreigners from 56 countries out of a total of 7,218 prisoners.[1] It is a part of the Thai Department of Corrections.
The Klong Prem section for women houses female death row inmates.[2][3]
History[edit]
Klong Prem Central prison was originally a temporary prison established in 1944 in the Lard Yao district as a consequence of demands during World War II when Thailand was at war with Britain and the United States.[4] In 1959 it was used as a vocational training centre for those who, in the words of the Thai corrections department, "act and behave as gangsters".[5]
In 1960 the old Klong Prem prison on Maha Chai Road (now the Bangkok Corrections Museum) had become especially overcrowded so all prisoners were transferred to the vocational training centre site.[4] The Interior Ministry established a temporary prison within the new compound by dividing one part into a vocational training centre and the other part into the Lard Yao temporary central prison. In 1972 the Interior Ministry issued orders establishing the prison on Maha Chai Road as the "Bangkok Remand Prison" and the prison in the Lard Yao subdistrict was designated the "Klong Prem Central Prison".[4]
Prison World Cup[edit]
With the large number of foreign nationals at Klong Prem, the prison is able to hold a football World Cup.[1] Teams of 10 are chosen by prison staff to represent Nigeria, Japan, the US, Italy, France, England, Germany, and Thailand.[1] Games consist of two 20-minute halves on a half-sized pitch. The winners are given a replica of the real World Cup trophy, which is made of wood in the prison workshop.[1]
Current and former notable prisoners[edit]
Foreign prisoners are concentrated in Building 2, and those prisoners may have contact visits for several days providing visitors can demonstrate they have traveled from another country. As of June 2010, there are many foreign prisoners in other buildings of the prison complex.
Jon Cole, American heroin smuggler. Author of Bangkok Hard Time.[6]
Brian Scott Meise: released[citation needed]
Ginggaew Lorsoongnern, convicted of murder[7]
David McMillan: Arrested for drug charges, he successfully escaped from the prison in August 1996 and has published a book titled Escape which describes his time in Klong Prem and his escape.[8]
Dmitry Ukrainskiy: In 2016, Russian businessman Dmitry Ukrainskiy was arrested in Pattaya, Thailand, along with Uzbeki Olga Komova in Koh Chang, Thailand. Dmitry Ukrainskiy was initially held on an arrest warrant based on a provisional extradition request from the United States.[9] In addition, the Russian Federation initiated its own extradition request for Dmitry Ukrainskiy. Ukrainskiy was also charged with a civil case amounting to 18.1 million Thai baht (THB) and a criminal case involving charges of money laundering and other business-related charges. Dmitry Ukrainskiy is currently in the Klong Prem Remand Prison, pending appeal.[10]
Johan van Laarhoven: In 2015 The Dutch former Coffee shop owner from The Netherlands sentenced to 103 years in prison for money laundering. His fortune was made from running licensed cannabis cafes in his own country. Van Laarhoven was convicted for spending money in Thailand earned by selling cannabis in The Netherlands. Johan van Laarhoven now 55 of age, will spend 20 years behind bars serving 43 concurrent sentences. His wife, Tukta, was sentenced to 12 years in prison since her name is on their property purchase documents and officials have asserted that the money used to buy that property was earned by selling cannabis.
Sandra Gregory: British woman who was imprisoned in Thailand for drug smuggling after being caught trying to smuggle heroin and temazepam out of Bangkok's Don Muang Airport. The King of Thailand granted Gregory a royal pardon and she was released on 18 June 2001.[11]
Nola Blake: An Australian woman who in 1987 was arrested in Bangkok for drug trafficking. Blake received a royal pardon and was released in March 1998 having spent 11 years and two months in prison. She returned home 24 March 1998.
Harry Nicolaides: An Australian writer of Greek-Cypriot origin imprisoned in Thailand under the Thai lèse majesté law, for a passage in a 2005 novel of his deemed to defame the Thai monarchy. On 19 January 2009 he was sentenced to three years in prison. He was pardoned on 21 February, after having spent six months in prison.
Paul Hayward: An Australian man who was convicted in Thailand, alongside Warren Fellows and William Sinclair, for attempting to export 8.5 kilograms of heroin to Australia. After being transferred back to Lard Yao he was released on 7 April 1989, after being granted a royal pardon.
Roger Thomas Clark: arrested in April 2015,[12] suspected of being Variety Jones, the closest advisor to Ross Ulbricht, alleged founder of the Silk Road dark web website. Roger Thomas Clark was extradited from Bangkok, Thailand, to New York, US on June 15, 2018, where he faces a maximum penalty of life in prison.[13]
Colin Martin: An Irish citizen from Carrickmacross, County Monaghan, who was imprisoned in Thai prisons for the crime of murder. He was released from the Lard Yao prison near Bangkok on 18 January 2005 and was deported from Thailand.
Viktor Bout: Arrested on 6 March 2008, by Royal Thai Police for allegedly conspiring to supply the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). He was extradited to the United States on 16 November 2010. On 2 November 2011, he was convicted by a jury in New York of conspiracy to provide material support or resources to a designated foreign terrorist organization, conspiring to kill Americans, conspiring to kill American officers or employees, conspiring to acquire and use an anti-aircraft missile, illegal purchase of aircraft, wire fraud, and money laundering.
Andrew Hood (some reports say "Hoods"): Arrested in departure hall of Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi International airport on 17 December 2008 and charged with trafficking heroin.[14][15][16][17] On 5 August 2009 he was sentenced to life imprisonment for drug trafficking. He avoided the death penalty by confessing to the crime.[18]
Kim Eriksson: A Swede who was sentenced to life imprisonment for drug offenses and for having a methamphetamine lab.
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long Prem Central Prison
Location : Bangkok, Thailand
Coordinates : 13°50′50″N 100°33′14″E
Status : Operational
Security class : Maximum security
Opened : 1944
Managed by : Thai Department of Corrections