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Bangkok Corrections Museum
Maha Chai Road, Bangkok, Thailand Phone: +66 2 5269014About
The Bangkok Corrections Museum is an incarceration museum in Bangkok , Thailand . It is located on Maha Chai Road on the site of a former Bangkok maximum security prison built in 1890, during the reign of King Chulalongkorn Rama V . It was planned to follow the Brixton Prison of England. The prison museum was established in 1939 in another prison, the Bang Kwang Central Prison ,which had served as a training center for corrections officers and gained the notorious title " Bangkok Hilton " in the way that the Hanoi Hilton did in Vietnam for its brutal prison history
