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August 21st, 2013 
Peter Nolan Convicted drug smuggler Schapelle Corby will be expected to undertake moral and religious instruction if granted parole, according to a document which confirms an observation team which assessed her last week has recommended her for early release.
The document, obtained by AAP, and prepared last week by a team from the Bali corrections board, otherwise known as BAPAS, also states that Corby “has regretted her action and promised not to commit new law violation”.
“The client promised not to commit any new crime of any kind,” the document says.
“Based on the assessment from observation team meeting in Denpasar BAPAS office on August 15, 2013, we recommended … Schapelle Leigh Corby be suggested for integration stages of parole”.
The document was prepared following an inspection of the Kuta home of Schapelle’s older sister Mercedes and her Balinese husband Wayan Widiartha, and confirms “the (address) is suitable place for the client because it’s safe and comfortable”.
A number of recommendations listed by the assessment team are also in line with conditions agreed to in a letter, signed by Corby on August 14, and which was revealed earlier this week.
But the BAPAS document also suggests that Corby would be expected to undertake “moral and religious” training if granted parole.
“Guidance must be increased regarding moral and religious training … and law so that after getting parole, client could participate in society and obey guidance process,” it says.
The latest development in the Corby saga comes after it was also revealed earlier this week she could be free to return to Australia three years earlier if she served out her sentence in prison rather than applying for parole.
The head of the Bali Corrections Board said on Monday that Corby would no longer be eligible for annual sentence remissions if granted parole, and would also be required to undertake an additional “guidance period” of one year.
It would mean the 36-year-old, who was caught in 2004 attempting to smuggle more that 4.1kg of marijuana into Bali, may have to remain in Indonesia until March 2018 if granted parole.
However, if she chose not to apply for parole, and received the maximum eight months in remissions each year, she could walk free by mid-2015.
Corby is serving a 15-year jail term after Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono last year granted her clemency on humanitarian grounds and slashed her sentence by five years.
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