Pubdate: Mon, 14 Aug 2006
Source: Border Mail (Australia)
Copyright: 2006 Border Mail
Contact:  http://www.bordermail.com.au/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/1017
Author: B. Scott-Young

LEAVE CORBY IN BALI AND BUILD A SCHOOL, INSTEAD

I NOTICE the Australian Government is going ahead with  an agreement 
with Indonesia to allow Australian  criminals in Indonesia to serve 
their sentences in an  Australian prison.

So what? I hear people say.

Consider this - it costs more than $60,000 per year to  keep a 
prisoner in an Australian prison.

If we were to bring Schapelle Corby back to Australia  with her 18 
years to serve, at $60,000 minimum, that's  about $1.1million.

It would build a nice school wouldn't it or staff a  hospital ward or 
fund a lot of hospital operations.

There are a lot of Australian criminals over there,  drug 
traffickers, pedophiles, so just imagine how many  Australians will 
miss out on operations or hospital  beds or kids' classrooms so we 
can import criminals to  a comfortable Australian prison.

I hope we wake up and make the Government spend the  money for the 
good of Australians and not on criminal  scum.

- - B. SCOTT-YOUNG,

Albury
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MAP posted-by: Jay Bergstrom