JAIL HELL: Schapelle Corby
AS Schapelle Corby prepares to spend her sixth Christmas behind bars, her family says she now lives in her own little world and her lawyers are working on a new legal strategy to seek clemency and have her sentence slashed.
This Christmas Day will be little different from previous ones which the 32-year-old has spent behind bars. Her family fears she may not even register yet that Christmas is around the corner.
Aside from a special Christian prayer service and a small ceremony to announce the traditional sentence remissions, it will be business as usual at Bali's Kerobokan Jail.
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Visiting hours will be the same and there will be no special food on offer, except that bought by her family who will visit. Corby's brother Michael and friends plan to visit on Christmas Day and her mother, Rosleigh Rose, will arrive in Bali soon after.
Sister Mercedes and her family, who live in Bali and care full time for Schapelle, have headed home to Australia for Christmas this year.
But before she left Mercedes told of the family's heartbreak at watching her sister's descent into psychiatric illness as the years in jail, protesting her innocence, have taken their toll.
The family also faces a battle to ensure her condition, which a prominent Australian psychiatrist diagnosed as a severe psychotic illness, is monitored in jail and that she takes her medication.
"It is really sad, she is in her own little world. She has made her own little world," Mercedes said.
"She is far from reality."
Mercedes says that some days there are times when her sibling is rational and together but more often than not she is irrational and paranoid, believing everything to have a hidden meaning or agenda.
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