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Real Reality
Joined: 10 Jan 2003
Location: Seoul
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 Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2006 4:27 am Post subject: Foreign Prisoners |
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Foreign Prisoners Cherish Freedom
... The alleged crime in question is usually divided along national lines: Malaysians, credit card fraud; Vietnamese, theft; Mongolians, manslaughter; and Westerners, drugs.
... After all of this, the foreign prisoners are released to immigration officials upon the completion of their sentence. If they cannot afford to pay for a plane ticket home they can then spend up to six months in an immigration detention center before being banned from Korea for five years.
By Steve Kuack, Korea Times (March 1, 2006)
http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/200603/kt2006030118162368040.htm |
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tzechuk
Joined: 20 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2006 4:53 am Post subject: |
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| If they can't afford to pay their way back home after their prison term, how will staying a further 6 months in a detention centre help them?! |
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Swiss James
Joined: 26 Nov 2003
Location: Shanghai
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| Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2006 5:07 am Post subject: |
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| I knew someone who violated his visa, so immigration found him a job and garnished his wages |
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Homer
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| Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2006 6:48 am Post subject: |
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Foreign Prisoners Cherish Freedom
This is priceless!!!!
RR..I will say it again, you sir are a master of being astonished by the obvious and mundane! 
Whats next?
Death Row Inmate cherishes his life
Terminaly ill whishes he could be cured |
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jacl
Joined: 31 Oct 2005
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| Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2006 6:53 am Post subject: |
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| Swiss James wrote: |
| I knew someone who violated his visa, so immigration found him a job and garnished his wages |
That's actually quite good of them. Immigration is God. They have discretion to bend the rules when appropriate. |
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tzechuk
Joined: 20 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2006 7:50 am Post subject: |
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Noone has answered my question.
How will detaining the prisoners a further 6 months help them get home?
Even if immi get them a job, immi takes all the money - will they get these guys plane tickets to go home with? |
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JongnoGuru
Joined: 25 May 2004
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| Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2006 10:34 am Post subject: |
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| but of the foreigners Westerners usually get lighter sentences than those from elsewhere. |
This belongs on one of those "Five Best Things About Korea" threads. |
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