SPIRIT OF SCHAPELLE
The fighting spirit
FPSS - Save - A - Life
Who Is Schapelle Corby?
Schapelle Leigh Corby is a 27-year-old beauty therapist student from Queensland, Australia.
On October 8, 2004, Schapelle's life changed when she was detained at the Denpassar Airport, accused of smuggling 4.1 kg of marijuana in her boogie board bag from Australia to Bali, Indonesia.
Schapelle was horrified when they made the terrible discovery and immediately denied any knowledge of it, or how it came to be in her boogie board bag.
Schapelle Corby is a young woman who continues to maintain her innocence, despite receiving a 20 year sentence from the Denpassar District court on May 27th 2005. Prosecutors had demanded life in jail for Corby, who has repeatedly argued the drugs found by airport officials in her unlocked bag on the holiday island last year were not hers and that they were planted.
Schapelle Corby is currently detained in Kerobokan Prison, Bali.
Where is Schapelle Corby?
Kerobokan prison is on the outskirts of Denpasar. AIDS is rife in the jail and conditions appalling. Poor sanitation, lack of food and the tropical climate creates a harsh and dangerous environment in which to survive. Malnutrition and disease are common.
The toilets in the jail's squalid cells sit directly beside the benches
where food is prepared. The jail was built in 1976 for 366 prisoners,
but it holds 525.
Schapelle shares her 5m-wide cell with seven other women.
She is forced to wash with only a small bucket and ladle. The untreated
water is fetched from a dilapidated well in the prison compound.
Food is delivered to the prisoners on a big cart, a bucket of rice which
regularly contains stones, dirt and sticks.
The jail holds some of the worst foreign and local prisoners in
Indonesia, including the infamous Bali bombers.
Human rights activists estimate that life expectancy in the badly
overcrowded jail compound would be between 10 and 15 years.
