According to the UAE law, some prisoners are supposed to be deported after their sentences. The deportation costs are supposed to be brne by the prisoners themselves. If the prisoners cannot afford a ticket home and by law cannot be released back to the UAE, then the prisoners will continue to stay jailed for as long as it takes to raise the ticket home. Some prisoners have overstayed their time in jail for days, weeks, months and in some rare occassions, years.
Every now and then we get calls from people who have finished their prison sentences and are seeking help to get tickets home so that they can be released.
We always shop arround for the best prices available and help these individuals who have paid, and sometimes overpaid, their debt to society to get a new beginning in their home countries.
And so far, everytime the need arose, we have been able to get the required tickets, but as the word goes arround in prison, the calls are increasing and the need is outgrowing our means.
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