Thailand Backs Off Proposal to Employ Ex-Convicts on Fishing Vessels After Intense Media Backlash
SEAFOODNEWS.COM by Michael Ramsingh - January 22, 2015
The Thai government has elected to back off a proposed plan that would employ former convicts on fishing vessels.
In a press release from the Royal Thai Embassy officials said they will not enact the policy that was proposed to help former convicts find employement and integrate them back into society after serving their sentences.
According to officials the proposal was pulled after media reports blasted the plan that Thailand was recruiting prisoners to work on fishing vessels, which was not the intent of the program...
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