The Bali prison that Schapelle Corby has called home for the past nine years is overcrowded, dull and depressing.
More than 900 prisoners are inside, mostly Indonesians on minor drugs convictions.
Of course, there are also foreigners behind bars, including Corby, and seven members of the Bali Nine - Renae Lawrence and Scott Rush were recently transferred to separate Bali jails.
The jail is overpopulated and efforts are under way to spread inmates to other prisons and rehabilitation centres elsewhere on the island and throughout Indonesia.
At one point in 2012, the simmering problems caused by the crowded conditions spilled over and inmates rioted.
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There are two blocks inside the jail - one for women and the other for men - separated by a courtyard where both groups mix.
Corby shares a corner cell of about 5x5 metres with three other female prisoners.
Johannes Christo, a local photojournalist who visited the jail in 2010, says at that time, the cell was clean and the conditions tidy.
But he points out the visit was a public relations exercise by the then-prison governor, who was keen to show his prisoners got no special privileges.
Christo says how bad the conditions are in Kerobokan just depends on your perspective.
"Whether you come from overseas or from Indonesia, you wouldn't say the jail was really 'good,'" he said.
"It has very simple beds. It's a simple life."
There was no TV then, and dinner was usually a rice-based dish cooked communally and then distributed to prisoners who eat in their cell.
However, Mercedes Corby regularly takes her sister something more exciting to eat.
When Mercedes and her husband Wayan Widyartha visited on Friday, they were ushered directly through the gates, past the breathless media pack.
Other visitors on Friday - bemused by the large Australian media contingent waiting on news of Corby's parole - had to take a number and wait in a covered outdoor area.
Prison officials were barring media from entering as visitors, even if they named a prisoner they were going to see.
Visitors, who go in three at a time, are subjected to a full body search and must surrender their mobile phones, before going to another waiting room and then the visiting area.
It's understood the Corbys are spared the search.
One woman, who visits her husband daily, says there are very strict rules for other women visitors.
They aren't allowed to wear skirts, g-strings or low-cut shirts, and must be polite as they endure the body search by a female guard.
