A woman clutches a picture of the late King as she joins a long line of people going through security screening on Asadang Road. The department will also put on exhibitions honouring the late King inside prison buildings for visitors, he said. The department will also provide facilities for non-Buddhist inmates to pay respect to the late King, in accordance with their respective faiths. Royal pardons result in the release of inmates serving light sentences, reducing prison terms for others and commuting death sentences to life imprisonment. In July last year, the late King granted royal pardons for the last time in which 30,000 inmates saw their sentences reduced or were released.

Source: Bangkok Post October 25, 2017 21:33 UTC