YANGON DIVISION – Female Prison Authority Head Mi Mi Hlaing is said to be terribly exploiting the female prisoners including the unjustly detained political prisoners in Insein Prison by doing business in the prison including extorting money for prison transfer, selling spaces inside the cells and even operating a KTV, according to the Political Prisoners Network Myanmar (PPNM).
Mr. Taik Tun Oo, a leading executive member of PPNM said that Mi Mi Hlaing and her accomplices have been committing terrible exploitations in the prison as Mi Mi Hlaing is in charge of assigning cells and transferring buildings and the prisoners can only switch places with her permission. As such, only those who can afford to pay her are assigned to good places such as the upper berth and places with good airflow while those who can’t pay her are assigned to places beside the toilet or the rubbish bin with terrible smell.
According to the investigation by PPNM, Mi Mi Hlaing is said to demand from 500,000 to 1,000,000 Kyats to assign a good place.
In addition, Mi Mi Hlaing is also said to be the main culprit behind the prison transfer of female political prisoners receiving emergency medical treatment in the prison and those who are in bad health and require long term treatment. She and her accomplices reportedly made it so that the female prisoners cannot get adequate treatment and would also assign those who didn’t pay her to places unsuitable for their health.
She also collected money from the female prisoners to purchase cleaning supplies and to repaint the buildings in the prison, split the profits earned from the prisoners during the in prison ceremonies and entertainment programs with the warden and has even opened a karaoke room (KTV) inside an office room beside the female prisoner cell and charge the visitors from 10,000 to 20,000 Kyats per hour for her own personal earnings, reported Mr. Taik Tun Oo.