Because of late admission to hospital, mistreatment, a lack of medicines and no care for patients, the following prisoners died in the prison hospital. The majority of deaths were due to dysentery. All of them were prominent political prisoners from Insein prison. If any of these victims had a chance to receive treatment outside the prison, they would have survived. These horrific incidents take place in Burmese prisons because of corruption, abuse of authority and disrespect for prisoners as fellow human beings by the prison officials.
All prisoners receive two meals, one in the morning and another in the evening.
For the special meal once a week, the prisoners are given meat. The rice given to prisoners is the lowest quality available in Burma. The pea curry consists of a few yellow peas boiled in a large volume of water. Almost all the peas from the curry have already been removed by the prisoners in charge by the time meal time arrives. This leaves only pea-water for the other prisoners.