0 Corby's Behavior Angers Bali Prison Warden

Australian drug smuggler Schapelle Corby has earned the ire of the chief warden of Bali's Kerobokan Penitentiary, which could derail her chances of getting another remission or parole. “I have to be strict from now on,” the chief warden, Gusti Ngurah Wiratna, said on Wednesday as quoted by Antaranews.com. “If she fails to perform her duties, we will not give her any privileges. Don't ask for a remission or parole.” Wiratna said the 36-year-old Corby failed to attend several mandatory activities, the latest being the ceremony on Wednesday morning to declare Kerobokan Penitentiary a model prison for being free of mobile phones, illegal fees and drugs. 

“Corby was absent for no clear reason,” he said, adding that she also refused to attend a Christmas celebration on Jan. 4, 2013. “Whoever the prisoner is, regardless of whether they are one of our own people or a foreigner, if they don't perform their duties and join all activities, we will punish them,” he added. Other prisoners who did not attend the ceremony included convicted British drug smuggler Lindsay Sandiford. Corby, who was sentenced in 2005 to 20 years in prison for attempting to smuggle 4.2 kilograms of marijuana into Bali, has already received seven years and seven months worth of sentence cuts. 

Sentence cuts in Indonesia are traditionally given to mark Independence Day and on major religious holidays — Christmas for Christian inmates, Idul Fitri for Muslims, Galungan for Hindus and Waisak for Buddhists. The remissions are given based on recommendations from prison officials. In addition to a combined 31 months worth of remissions given out during holidays, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono granted her a five-year reduction in May 2012. She is now due to be released in September 2017, earlier if she gets parole. 

But in November 2012, senior prison official Rachmat Priyo Sutardjo told AFP that the parole has been suspended. Without parole, she is not due for release until September 2017. “We have suspended parole requests by foreign prisoners as the new immigration law contradicts a current regulation,” senior prisons official Rachmat Priyo Sutardjo told AFP.

source : the jakarta globe