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By Nadine Cresswell-Myatt, published 19/5/2015Even the prison governor testified to the example Chan and Sukumaran led in encouraging prisoners to lead drug-free lives.
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If every drug runner were put in prison their activities would be curtailed. There is no reason to assume that they would not still be drug runners had they not been caught. There also is no evidence that they had reformed. When a prisoner is released and does not offend again that is evidence of reformation. They behaved well in jail. That is not reformation.
The death penalty for drug trafficking in Indonesia is no secret. Chan and Sumarakan took a chance they wouldn't get caught. That is what every criminal does. Sometimes they don't get caught. Generally if they don't get caught they continue their crimes. This was not their first drug crime. This was their last.