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Crocodiles to Guard Death Row Prisons in Indonesia

posted by martyb on Friday November 13 2015, @08:49AM   Printer-friendly
from the poison? dept.

HughPickens.com writes:

BBC reports that Budi Waseso, the head of Indonesia's anti-drugs agency has proposed building a prison island guarded by crocodiles to house death-row drug convicts and says crocodiles make better guards than humans - because they cannot be bribed. "We will place as many crocodiles as we can there," says Waseso. "You can't bribe crocodiles. You can't convince them to let inmates escape." Waseso says only traffickers would be kept in the jail, to stop them from mixing with other prisoners and potentially recruiting them to drug gangs. The plan, reminiscent of James Bond's "Live and Let Die" movie escape, is still in the early stages, and neither the location or potential opening date of the jail have been decided.

Anti-drugs agency spokesman Slamet Pribadi confirmed authorities were mulling the plan to build “a special prison for death row convicts.” Indonesia already has some of the toughest anti-narcotics laws in the world, including death by firing squad for traffickers, and sparked international uproar in April when it put to death seven foreign drug convicts, including Australians Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran. Despite the harsh laws, Indonesia’s corrupt prison system is awash with drugs, and inmates and jail officials are regularly arrested for narcotics offences.

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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by frojack on Friday November 13 2015, @09:35AM

    by frojack (1554) on Friday November 13 2015, @09:35AM (#262568) Journal

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  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by massa on Friday November 13 2015, @09:53AM

    by massa (5547) on Friday November 13 2015, @09:53AM (#262572)

    Crocodiles can be EASILY bribed. With MEAT. There is plenty of meat in a prison, in the form of fellow inmates. QED...

    • (Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Friday November 13 2015, @07:06PM

      by DeathMonkey (1380) on Friday November 13 2015, @07:06PM (#262792) Journal

      Crocodiles can be EASILY bribed. With MEAT. There is plenty of meat in a prison, in the form of fellow inmates. QED...
       
      Lucky for us they are only putting those evil condemned drug users in this dystopian prison. All those less-evil murderers stay in the normal prison. So, there shouldn't be a problem...

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 13 2015, @11:13PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 13 2015, @11:13PM (#262872)

    Why are they bothering to build an island?