Bangkok

Bang Khen Detention Centre

Thailand

Status

In use

2024

Type: Immigration detention centre (Administrative)

Custodial Authority: Not Available

Management: Immigration Bureau (Governmental)

Detains: Adult women, Adult men, Asylum seekers (administrative), Undocumented migrants (administrative)

Capacity Reported population Conditions complaints?
600
554

26 March 2021

YES

2024

Thailand

241

Detained Asylum Seekers

46

Detained Women

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FACILITY NAMES
Bang Khen Detention Centre
Location

Country: Thailand

City & Region: Bangkok, Asia-Pacific

Latitude, Longitude: 13.869299, 100.577846

MANAGEMENT & BUDGET

Center Status
Status
Year
In use
2024
In use
2021
Facility type
Category
Type
Year
Administrative
Immigration detention centre
2024
Ad Hoc
Government building
2021
Management
Management
Type
Year
Immigration Bureau
Governmental
2021
Operating Period
Year of entry
Year ceased
2019

DETAINEES

Demographics

Adult women

2024

Adult men

2024
Categories of detainees

Asylum seekers (administrative)

2021

Undocumented migrants (administrative)

2021
Countries of Origin

Country #1 China

Country #2 Cambodia

Country #3 Vietnam

Country #4 Laos

Country #5 Myanmar

2024
At-Risk Populations

Asylum seekers

2024

SIZE & POPULATION

Capacity (specialised migration-related facility)

Type Standard capacity

Capacity 600

2021
Migration Detainee Entries

Number 147

2024
Number of women detained (year)

34

2024
Number of children (under 18) detained (year)

113

2024
Reported Single-Day Migration Detainee Population at Facility (day)
Number
Date
554
26 March 2021

LENGTH OF DETENTION

OUTCOMES

CONDITIONS

Overall Inspection Score

Deficient (“Deficient” or “At Risk”)

2024
Inadequate conditions
Inadequate Conditions
Obvs. Date
2024

CARCERAL INDICATORS

STAFF

Mistreatment Reports

Yes

2024

SEGREGATION

Gender Segregation

Yes

2024

CELLS

Equipped (beds, tables, shelves, chairs)

Partially

2024

COMMUNAL SPACE & ACTIVITIES

Indoor Communal Space

No

2024

HEALTH

Overall assessment of facility health care provision

Deficient (“Deficient” or “At Risk”)

2024
Doctor on Duty

No Doctor on Duty

2024
Nurse on Duty

Daily

2024
Psychologist Visits

No regular visits

2024

MONITORING & ACCESS

Lawyer Access

Infrequently

2024
Monitors & Civil Society Access
Access?
Type of Institution
Obsv. Date
No
UN High Commissioner for Refugees
2024

TELECOMMUNICATIONS

Internet Access

Yes (with restrictions)

2024
Access to Personal Cell Phones

Yes (unrestricted)

2024

NEWS & TESTIMONY

2024

One former detainee at Bang Khen IDC said he shared a 20-square-meter cell with more than 100 detainees, including Rohingya children who had been separated from their mothers or guardians. One interviewed former female detainee at the Detention Center for Mothers and Children shared a cell “about the size of two standard bedrooms” with 23 other detainees, including children. According to the National Human Rights Commission of Thailand (NHRCT), mothers and children detained at Songkhla IDC shared cramped cells with other female detainees, in which the space per person waswell below 2.25 square meters