4,000 Days: My Life and Survival in a Bangkok Prison

4,000 Days: My Life and Survival in a Bangkok Prison
by Warren Fellows

4,000 Days: My Life and Survival in a Bangkok Prison
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Author: Warren Fellows
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2000-04-01
ISBN: 0312253648
Number of pages: 224
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin

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Book Review: Tale of inhumanity, brutallity, and misery, he chose
Summary: 5 Stars

This book can be read in one day. One thing I liked about it, is that he isn't a professional writer. Yet, he conveyed his thoughts and experiences well. He didn't make excuses for his actions or the consequences. He played the game and got caught. Credit to Fellows for sharing parts of his personal and family life with us as well as his life inside Maha Chai and Bang Kwang Prison. He was before being caught a shrewd drug courier, getting out of some very close calls with airport security and immigration, by impromptu ideas and actions. He kept his cool, was very creative, and he had guts. These were risks with such high consequences that very few would even think about taking them.

The physical and mental torture, and the humiliation he experienced and witnessed was beyond human. They are provided in detail.

After his release from Bang Kwang and return home to Australia he described the difficulty of adjusting life on the outside, and the tole it would eventually take on his friend he served time with.

Summary of 4,000 Days: My Life and Survival in a Bangkok Prison

In the late 1970s, author Warren Fellows and two of his friends had the perfect scheme: they would traffic heroin between Australia and Thailand, concealing it flawlessly in high-tech, invisible compartments in suitcases. The money was there, and the process seemed foolproof--especially because they hadn't gotten caught in all their prior attempts at smuggling. But in 1978, all that would change, and Fellows would spend the next twelve years of his life enduring violations of his human rights of unimaginable hideousness.

Fellows, convicted in Thailand, spent these twelve years in Bangkok's infamous Bang Kwang prison, witnessing atrocities committed by both prison officials and his fellow inmates. He survived countless torturous beatings, was forced to eat rats, and endured solitary confinement under terrifyingly inhumane conditions. On a daily basis, Fellows also witnessed the torture and execution of those around him, their screams as common as the insects and vermin in his cell. Many of the prisoners in Bang Kwang turned to heroin--the vice that landed Fellows there in the first place--to escape their daily nightmares, and the prison guards often helped feed this deadly addiction.

Fellows, now a free man, has lived to write about these twelve ghastly years. He has captured the filth, pain, anger, hopelessness, and torture of life in a Thai prison with vivid, engrossing detail and brutal honesty.

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