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TANINTHARYI DIVISION – According to people close to Dawei Prison, around ten prison employees, including the medical officer have been sentenced by the junta council.
Since the second week of July, in Dawei Prison, military council soldiers have been investigating and prosecuting both prison staff and inmates.
While doing so, on August 14, after drugs and phones were seized from the home of the deputy warden, the military council army arrested and interrogated several employees, including Deputy Warden Thu Rain Tun and Warden Aung Naing Phe.
Of these, Dawei Prison Medical Officer Win Zaw was sentenced to 11 months in prison on the 21st August after he was arrested in connection with selling goods in prison.
“The medical officer, was prosecuted and sentenced almost immediately after his arrest. I heard that he was charged under two sections at the beginning. I can’t say if there is another section or not,” said a person close to the prison.
It is not known what section the medical officer was charged under, but a source close to him said that he is imprisoned in the same building with former Tanintharyi Chief Minister Myint Maung.
In addition to the medical officer, there are around 10 prison staff members who have been sentenced to prison terms ranging from six months to one and a half years.
The number of prison staff who were imprisoned, cases they were charged and prison terms are not yet confirmed.
A family member of a prisoner said that the majority of the arrested staff were those in charge of receiving the parcels for prisoners.
In addition to those employees, five employees who were arrested since the first raid are also reportedly on trial in an external court.
The dormitory head who is being charged at the external court has been delivered the first sentence, and is still on trial for other cases under narcotics section 19 (a) and section 21 and Section 22 of Crime of Corruption.
Due to many employees being arrested and due to the imprisonment, only a small number of former employees remain in Dawei Prison where work is being carried out by new employees.
Among the inmates, six inmates who are in prison for drug offenses have been charged with articles that can result in an unlimited number of years in prison for using drugs in the prison.
Similarly, there are around 20 inmates who have been sentenced to additional prison terms for possession of mobile phones.