Dream island a jail nightmare | National Breaking News | Breaking News 24/7 - NEWS.com.au (28-05-2005)

Dream island a jail nightmare | National Breaking News | Breaking News 24/7 - NEWS.com.au (28-05-2005)

"For the next two decades, barring a successful appeal or a prisoner exchange deal with her homeland, the 27-year-old Gold Coast woman will be confined to a disease-infested prison housing some of the world's most notorious Islamic extremists.

And, say experts, unless Corby resigns herself to her fate – something she has so far refused to do – her sentence for smuggling 4.1 kilograms of marijuana onto the island will be much worse.

After her sentencing yesterday, the student beautician was dragged from her tearful family and taken to Kerobokan jail, a sprawling maximum security penitentiary on the fringes of the Balinese capital Denpasar."