![]() When Fellows was finally released, he returned to Australia, where he dealt with the psychological repercussions of his ordeal. He and other inmates turned to heroin and other drugs, obtained from guards, to escape their nightmare. He was isolated, lived in filth, and was forced to eat rats. In his book, Fellows, who was twenty-five years old at the time of his arrest, recounts the beatings and tortures he witnessed, including the caning to death of other prisoners. Fellows spent part of his imprisonment in Bangkok's infamous Bang Kwang prison before being released on Christmas Day, 1989, through a king's pardon. Fellows and two friends had been smuggling heroin from Thailand to his native Australia, hiding the drugs in high-tech suitcases, when they were caught and convicted of smuggling in 1978. ![]() SIDELIGHTS: Former drug smuggler Warren Fellows documents his twelve years of imprisonment in Thailand in his book 4,000 Days: My Life and Survival in a Bangkok Prison. Martin's Press ( New York, NY) 1998, published as The Damage Done: Twelve Years of Hell in a Bangkok Prison, Mainstream Publishing (Edinburgh, Scotland), 1999. WRITINGS:Ĥ,000 Days: My Life and Survival in a Bangkok Prison, St. ![]() Martin's Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010.ĬAREER: Writer. ![]()
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