Schapelle to come home...posted on 07 mar 07 - 2:18 pm by auzgurl AUSTRALIA is set to finalise a prisoner exchange deal with Indonesia to allow Schapelle Corby and some of the Bali Nine to serve their sentences here.

Convicted drug smugglers including Corby and Bali Nine members not on death row, such as Renae Lawrence, are prisoners who would benefit.

According to reports, the treaty should be signed after a final meeting in Australia, the Indonesian Justice Minister Hamid Awaludin said after meeting Attorney-General Phillip Ruddock in Jakarta yesterday.

Both countries are still to agree on protocols for checking on repatriated prisoners, but Mr Ruddock was confident Australia could easily accommodate the requirement.

But he would not put a date on when the treaty would be signed.

The retrospective treaty would not apply to those condemned to death as Australia could not carry out that punishment, Mr Awaludin said in media reports today.

Under the deal, prisoners transferred from either country would serve the same sentence, minus remissions, that they would have if they had stayed.

-------------------------------------

thank goodness..about time.

From what Ive read freediver far worse..

It will mean that Indonesia fishermen busted poaching in our waters do their time in an Indonesian jail. I suspect that would be more of a deterrent.

Years later, the vivacious Aussie has made a living as a clockmaker and unveiled her new look to her 162K Instagram followers.