Bangkok (AHN)- Known primarily as a "hell-hole" for foreign drug smugglers, Thailand's Lad Yao debuted their new look on Tuesday as they welcomed delegates from a United Nations conference. Some prisoners wore pink tutus and tight green t-shirts, and transvestites and acrobats put on a show. Prisoners were seen studying for degrees and expressed the desire to excel once they completed their sentences. Michael Platzer, a former U. N. official responsible for crime and justice, is disgusted with the prison's attempt to appear humane. "It's a system designed not to reintegrate people. There's no way you can rehabilitate someone after 30 years. You wife or husband is dead, your children have gone. Your life is over. " Visitors were restricted from seeing living quarters or from talking to Thai or foreign inmates for more than a few minutes.

Slain porn star's agent wants to donate proceeds from her final movie to local Canadian children's hospital. Twenty-three-year-old, Natel King, stage name Taylor Sumers, made her final on-screen appearance in a porn film titled "Lesbian Lover. " After being stabbed to death last year, King's agent, Stephen Sirard, wants to donate proceeds made from the film's sales to Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children. Sirard said lawyers for his FCF agency in California had asked the hospital if they could highlight the promised gift on the cover of their video, using wording like "all proceeds from the sale of this video go to Sick Kid's Hospital in Toronto. " But hospital spokeswoman Carol Duncan said she has not heard anything about the issue, and she declined to say how the hospital might react to a donation of this kind. "We have to send the issue to the ethics committee and the board of directors for consideration," she said. King, described by Sirard as "a porn star with principles," says King raised money for the hospital before she was murdered. King was stabbed to death in February 2004 after a photography shoot near Philadelphia. The photographer has pleaded guilty to murder and could face 25 years in jail.

Eighty people are facing charges by the Indian police after participating in an ancient Hindu ceremony, which involves burying children alive. "The festival of the pits" is a ceremony during which children, some younger than one year, are buried alive and dug up after some time. Indian authorities that have been trying to stop this ritual for years, finally took action at a recent ceremony held Monday in southern Tamil Nadu state. The Kuzhimattru Thiru Vizha ceremony, held every two years, is a gathering of parents who have vowed to bury their first child as a blessing. The children are drugged to make them unconscious and placed in shallow "graves" in temple courtyards. The pits are covered with leaves and dirt and the children are pulled out after Hindu priests chant a brief prayer -- lasting up to a minute. If found guilty, participants face up to three years in jail or a fine of 5000 rupees ($114).

12-year-old, Amber Mooneyham, is being called a hero today after driving her wounded mother to safety. Hester Wiggins, 30, prepared to take her daughter, Amber, and son, Dalton, to school and the babysitter early Monday morning, but were confronted by an unwanted visitor. Curtis Wiggins, 44, was waiting for his wife outside and when she appeared. He shot her and fled. as the children watched, they were unharmed. 12-year-old Amber immediately took action, pushing her dying mother aside and taking the wheel of the car. Police reported that the girl drove her brother and mother several miles to the babysitter's home where the girl crashed in the front yard. The babysitter told authorities that Amber immediately shouted for help, claiming "Curtis shot Mamma!" Despite her heroic efforts, Amber Mooneyham's mother, Hester Wiggins, didn't survive.