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Apparently this agreement will soon be signed. It will be retrospective so as to allow for the Bali Nine (minus the two with the death sentence) and Schapelle Corby to be repatriated to Australian prisons.

Apparently Schapelle isn't keen on the idea! She thinks she's better off under Indonesian conditions where she can receive more visitors and feels life is generally easier than it would be in an Australian jail.

I was astonished to hear this. Am I alone in thinking that surely most of these prisoners would rather be back in their own country? Perhaps conditions over there aren't nearly as bad we we have imagined?

Julia
 
Well you know what a rough old bunch of nasties are in our prisions, big butch mommas. At least over there she'd be one of the bigger girls up against all them little Thais, and I hear you get supervised trips outsde to go shopping and have lunch etc. if you've got the money, and I bet she's got a book deal already signed, with an advance!

Reckon she new what was going on anyway, I'd certainly know if my boogie board was a bit heavier.....and smelt good lol.
 
Julia said:
Apparently this agreement will soon be signed. It will be retrospective so as to allow for the Bali Nine (minus the two with the death sentence) and Schapelle Corby to be repatriated to Australian prisons.

Apparently Schapelle isn't keen on the idea! She thinks she's better off under Indonesian conditions where she can receive more visitors and feels life is generally easier than it would be in an Australian jail.

I was astonished to hear this. Am I alone in thinking that surely most of these prisoners would rather be back in their own country? Perhaps conditions over there aren't nearly as bad we we have imagined?

Julia
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Hullo Julia,
Schapelle isn't keen to come back ?
Yep I agree what bull -**** is that ?

Bob.
 
Interesting Julia,wonder if the Indonesian fisherman will feel the same.
Apparently they are to be swapped for the Aussie prisoners.
 
Hi Julia

I'm not sure the prisoner exchange agreement is a done deal yet.

According to reports in the media back at around Corby's sentencing time, pressure was being applied on the Australian gov't to initiate a prisoner exchange system with Indonesia, similar to the ones we have with other countries.

Many people back then, in the media and elsewhere, were predicting that this agreement would eventuate but not as quickly as it appears to have been done :).

Alexander Downer said on Lateline last night that he hoped the deel could be finalised by Christmas. He went on to say that an Indonesian official will be coming out to Australia in September for further discussions to hopefully iron out the finer details and so hopefully by Christmas the agreement will be in place.

But the final stumbling block will be the Indonesian parliamnent. Whatever agreement we come up with, will have to be ratified by the Indonesian parliament according to the Lateline reporter. If it isn't, then the whole agreement falls in a heap if points of contention cannot be renegotiated.

Also, according to Downer, prisoners in Indonesia are often given an early pardon by the Indonesian president (for whatever reasons) and maybe some of the Australians might feel their chances of receiving an early pardon might be diminished if they are serving at least parts of their sentences in Australia and so might be reluctant to make an application to be transferred back to Australia. Australians transferred back from an Indonesian prison to an Australian prison will not be subject to our parole system for early release because they will still be serving sentences under the laws of the country in which they were originally sentenced. (according to Downer and that's the way it should be imo)

cheers

bullmarket :)
 
And fantastic news is that if we get another referendum and we vote for death penalty, we might be able to exchange prisoners on death row too. :)

Suppose will save bit of money on transporting corpses, not sure it would be private or taxpayers money, either way pure saving. :2twocents
 
Alexander Downer said on Lateline the other night that prisoners on death row will not be eligible to apply for a prison transfer :) and reading between the lines there is very little chance of a referendum on the death penalty any time soon as there is very little chance it would get up atm :D
 
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