HughPickens.com [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 [bbc.com]. "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 [youtube.com], 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” [theguardian.com] 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 [theguardian.com]. 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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