From the Inside

REPORTS of drugs being found in prisons are nothing new. The fact that some drug dealings escape the prison guard's 'watchful' eyes is also not news. We are also not too surprised that some prisons have been turned into places where ecstasy and shabu-shabu (crystal methamphetamine) are processed and produced. But what makes no sense is how the same person, Freddy Budiman, an inmate on death row, is the brains of this dastardly crime.

Freddy was sentenced to death on July 15, 2013, because 1.4 million ecstasy pills were found in his possession. He has submitted an appeal and was outright denied by the Supreme Court in September last year. It should also be noted that when he was tried for his latest crime, he was already serving a sentence for a separate drug case and serving time at Cipinang Prison.