Since 2006, I have been bringing critical humanitarian support to Canadians, and people from the US, Europe, the Middle East, Burma and Australia, all serving sentences of up to 100 years and the death penalty, mostly for drug charges, in Bangkok’s notoriously hellish prisons.

People suffer acute distress in these prisons, which do not meet UN minimum standards of treatment of prisoners (SMRS) for sanitation, nutrition or medical care. Foreigners experience overwhelming loneliness and pain away from family support, friends or home country. Luna-Rose Prisoner Support offers a critical life-line to incarcerated people, re-connecting them to the web of humanity.

Offering kindness, laughter, human conversation, food and medicine, has transformational effects in institutions built only for degradation and punishment, bringing a spark of light, joy and dignity to stigmatized, isolated people.

Supporting  inmates at these hellish prisons every day, I am both daunted by the enormity of the darkness and inspired to lean further towards the light. Sitting close to the centre of people’s struggles or pain, meeting them in compassion, I bear witness to the courage, resilience, and grace of the human spirit.  These men have transformed me, teaching me about meeting life ‘s struggles with courage.

The deplorable conditions of the prisons and appallingly poor conditions in Thailand under a military regime are well-documented by human rights’ organizations. This site is heavily self-censored in order to be able to continue to operate this humanitarian mission safely.

We do not comment on Thailand’s justice system or politics or human rights.