TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Death row convict in drug case Merry Utami now occupies an isolation cell at Besi Prison in Nusakambangan, Cilacap, Central Java, after she was transferred from a women prison in Tangerang, Banten.
"Based on reports that we receive, she has now been place in an isolation cell in Besi Prison to orientation period as she is still new," said Coordinator of Prisons in Cilacap and Nusakambangan Aris Abdul Cilacap in Cilacap on Sunday.
He added that Merry occupies an isolated cell by herself, separated from other inmates at the prison because she is a woman.
Merry was brought from Tangerang to Nusakambangan by bus on Saturday. She was arrested at Soekarno Hatta Airport for carrying 1.1 kilograms of heroin. Tangerang District Court imposed a death sentence to her in 2003.
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