he's screwed and will need to be tough in he wants to make it. I was actually watching the program " locked up abroad" last night. People need to be really careful when visiting another country.
the country has so many beautiful things to offer, why bother with illegal things that can bring you trouble..I don't get it
i would say people just should not do illegal things in any country, specially not in countries where jail time is well known not served with a cable TV connection in their private cell.
If you read the readers' letters by relatives who visited, the scenario they describe about visiting doesn't bear much relation to feedback I've had recently from other foreign visitors to that same jail. All the recent reports I've had say how much the visiting arrangements have improvedover what we all knew many years ago. In fact someone I know who visited a friend of hers who is a prisoner a few months back, actually bumped into what sounds to be the mother and aunt of this Canadian. She was involved in helping to translate for them since they had no Spanish and no translator with them. No wanting to be unsympathetic but after 11 visits you would have thought the necessity for some Spanish or a translator when visiting the jail would have become obvious by now.
Btw the 2 French girls in Rafey Women's prison got 8 years - again a recent case.
yeap Ginnie,
and our Isle's jails get new ones in several times each month, like the jails of other countries, some of those drug traffickers get sorrily uncaught away with their mayor crime, some get luckily caught in a country where they can serve some 'clinic time' for their mentally illness, some get caught right here where they get what they deserve.
without real details about the specific canadian's case i will not comment on him in detail, would be just guessing. but to feel 'threatened' like that guy felt by description of that canadian paper there should be by today the 'threatened' persons and stand up for him, or do they get threatened till today?
and that canadian newspaper said all that been done by a friend of his.
sorry, if that is all about the facts and his 'saying' that he is innocent, why the heck he got only such a low jail time for the capital crime he commited? and the paper calls that 'unknown' one a friend of his, good for a laugh.
that this Island's jails are not the most comfortable ones on the globe is not some kind of news, such save's the tax payers the costs to put cable TV and room service on the menue for the convicts who serve what they deserve.
we have sorrily every day of the year drugtraffickers like him trying and often sorrily successfully passing our airport checks,
if i would be president we would hang 'em all.
just my 2 cents,
but the drug guys are for our world's society and specially for our youngguns on the streets worse than any war in history ever been.
free the illegally and falsely accused prisoners of Guantanamo Bay/Camp Delta 1, but heck, don't dare to free the drug-trash once you have them in custody.
Mike