A prisoner in Bali’s infamous Kerobokan Prison was found dead Friday afternoon and reports say it appears he hung himself. The prisoner, Ropik Bin Pupon, 26, was from Banyuwangi, East Java. Police allege Pupon took his own life in the back of the prison. His body was discovered around 1 pm by other inmates and […]

Kerobokan Prison inmates Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran from the Bali Nine are waiting for Indonesia’s new guy in office, President Joko Widodo, to make a move on their sentence.  It’s up to Jokowi to extend clemency to save the men from the death penalty, if not, the two prisoners will face the firing squad. […]

Two members of the Bali Nine are more unsure of their fate now that former President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY) just left office without sparing them from the death penalty.  The AAP just reported that the two Australian prisoners of Kerobokan prison, Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran had pleas for clemency before SBY, for the last […]

Half a joint put New Zealander Leeza Ormsby behind bars in Bali’s infamous Kerobokan Prision. Now, after nine months later, the kiwi is reportedly getting out early for good behavior.  Ormsby could have stayed in the “Hotel Kerobokan” for up to 12 years under Indonesian law, but thanks to a “lenient” sentence of just 10 […]

“There’s nothing to do. You just sit down or lie down or stand up,” said New Zealander Terrence Green to the Taranaki Daily News on his jail time. Green lived with Denpasar’s baddest boys in a police cell where he spent two months after being arrested for property theft. The cell was a bit tight, […]

Apparently way too many people in Bali got the memo that orange is the new black.  Bali’s infamous Kerobokan Prison is over capacity by an alarming amount, according to Made Bandra, the prison’s acting head.  There are more than double the amount of prisoners than Kerobokan is meant to handle. That’s a lot of people […]