Terrifying Torture At Bangkok's Corrections Museum

The highlight/lowlight at the Corrections Museum is a big room with lots of exhibits of the variety of torture used in Thailand over the centuries. A pain and punishment for every transgression.

The big room of unfun.

Starting things off with your basic stockade. Next up, man in a klang, which is a rope around the neck, attached to a chain and then to another prisoner. Miserable together.

Bringing the elephant into the room. Here's a rattan ball, barely big enough for a prisoner. Add a bunch of steel spikes inside, faced toward the victim. Then, let the elephant loose. Kick away.

Presenting the ta-ngok. A bamboo collar with shackles. Not going anywhere and hating it. Then there's the chin hook. The prisoner is raised to tip toes and left to be speared.

The torture box. The prisoner is locked in, left in the hot sun to bake. Not a nice treat.

Doing A Little Time At Bangkok's Corrections Museum

An hour or two is enough. Let's hope you don't have to spend years at the Corrections Museum. Always a guest, never an inmate. It's actually a snazzy place, all brand new and re-located from some old property deep in the city. The museum is now on the property of the Bangkok Corrections Department and is improved for your penal pleasure.

Imposing entrance. Nice touch with the raw concrete look. Entering the Big House.

Great question! No easy answer. Uhm, a lot of cells?

Gruesome history ahead. Specifically, a certain way of execution back in the day.

The modern method of execution, a flag signal to get the machine gun going. The unlucky inmate is strapped to a pole, blindfolded and behind a sheet, never a chance to know the when of being killed.

The end of the museum exhibition has a wall of hope, a little spin on all the good doing time does. ready for the exit.