No More Tomorrows: The Compelling True Story of an Innocent Woman Sentenced to Twenty Years in a Hellhole Bali Prison by Schapelle Corby & Kathryn Bonella

Author:Schapelle Corby & Kathryn Bonella [Corby, Schapelle & Bonella, Kathryn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Biography & Autobiography, General, Social Science, Penology
ISBN: 9781845963866
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2008-06-01T14:00:00+00:00

My lawyers had a week to sort out the red tape to get this man to come and testify. It was a big week ahead, as I was also giving evidence, but I had no time to put my feet up and relax. The weeks between court appearances were as nightmarish as usual, but the unrelenting daily dramas were getting more draining as my fragile and paranoid state increased. Usually I walked from the bright lights of court straight into a sick new drama.

This particular week, I walked into a suicide attempt. Everyone was hysterical. A lesbian girl, Wanda, had just drunk a concoction of poison after being beaten by her jealous girlfriend, who’d caught her smoking drugs with a new bisexual girl. She was in really bad shape. She looked sick, her head hanging uselessly to one side. But the guards refused to call a doctor. They locked up and left as usual. By morning, Wanda couldn’t move. She was dribbling and twitching. Finally she was carried out on a stretcher and taken to hospital. She lived. She walked back in that same afternoon and made up with her guilty girlfriend, who’d even sold her mobile phone to pay off Wanda’s overdue drugs bill.

That night, a guy escaped. He’d just been sentenced to eleven years for murder and crawled out through a narrow drain near the women’s block, dumping his prison clothes on the side of the road where he exited. The next day, the place was full of talk that he’d been caught in the bushes just outside the jail. I doubted it, as I couldn’t see or hear anyone being beaten by the guards when I went out for my afternoon visit. It turned out he had successfully escaped. Lucky man!

Then there was the familiar scene of Sonia going crazy. She was kicking, screaming and thrashing wildly as girls struggled to hold her back from attacking another girl, who’d refused to give her a cigarette. I didn’t want to get involved. I went to church. But I walked straight back into new hysteria later on.

The concrete outside my cell was covered in blood. I’d just missed a nasty fight. Like a pack of angry dogs, eight male prisoners had charged into the women’s block, attacking a male prisoner there. They brutally beat him for five minutes before the guards pulled them off. He was a bloody unconscious mess and had to be taken to hospital. The other prisoners walked away without any trouble, the guards simply dismissing it as ‘a personal matter’. We all knew the guards often got prisoners to do their dirty work.

I woke up the next day at 5 a.m. to Sonia screaming and crying hysterically. She was still screaming at 7.30 a.m. when our cells were unlocked, so I stopped to check on her on my way to collect water. There was a huge rock at her feet. She said she’d woken up with her cellmate, Kartini, who has AIDS, attacking her with the rock and threatening to kill her.

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