IT IS the day that Schapelle Corby has dreamed about for so long. The day she walks out the front doors of Kerobokan Jail and never goes back.

The day she says goodbye to her former cellmates and to fellow Aussies, like Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran, who are on death row and may never get out.

Some of those good-byes will be bittersweet. People she has grown close to, who have helped her, who she has depended upon in her darkest hours, staying behind while she goes out in the world, to relative freedom.

She would rather be walking out an innocent woman, with her name cleared. But walking out, with a conviction and on parole, as she will do as early as tomorrow, is better than nothing.

Having served two-thirds of her 15-year sentence, she has been granted parole and, once the logistics are worked out, she will get out of jail.

The exact day is yet to be determined and is reliant upon the bureaucracies of the Justice system to sort out paperwork.

Now the Justice Minister, Amir Symasuddin, has signed her parole papers they will be sent from Jakarta to the Governor of Kerobokan Jail in Bali. He will then action them, arranging for the release within days.

Corby will gather her things, giving up much of it other fellow prisoners, say good bye and, at the appointed time, walk out of Kerobokan jail. Authorities say it will be through the front door.

There she will be confronted by a mountain of cameras and media crews, all clambering for that first image of Corby’s freedom. They have been assembling in Bali now for a week. One network has been paying local crews to sleep at the jail all night every night in case she is spirited out in the middle of the night.

Authorities scoff at that suggestion. They say that Corby will be released in office hours on a week day and there is no way it will done at night or on the weekend because both the prosecutions office and the parole authority are involved in her release and they must be on deck to complete the necessary paperwork.

Upon release, and before she can do anything else, Corby will have to sign paperwork for both the Prosecutions and Corrections offices and meet her parole officer.

She will then be free to go with her family. Exactly where she will go remains a closely-guarded secret so far.

But she will not be under house arrest and her movements and activities will not be restricted. She however must remain in Indonesia and must not leave the country until the expiration of her sentence in mid 2017. But she will be free to go on holidays within Indonesia, to go out, to work and live a relatively normal life. She can receive visitors and can visit people.

Part of her parole conditions are that she must live in the home of her sister Mercedes and brother-in-law Wayan Widyartha and their three children.

The two-storey home is in a traditional Balinese Hindu family compound in central Kuta. It is one six houses in the compound which is centred on a Hindu temple. The compound is home to about 35 people – all relatives of Mercedes’ husband Wayan. Mostly they are the uncles of Wayan and their families.

(Next door to Mercedes and Wayan is a Hindu priest who is one of Kuta’s senior priests. Another Uncles’ house is largely vacant because he spends a lot of time in Jakarta and there is also a possibility that Corby, if she wanted to escape and sleep on her own, could use a bedroom there sometimes.

The home is comfortable and has more Western mod-cons than an average traditional Balinese home in the village but is by no means flash or palatial. There is a western style bathroom with hot and cold water and a Western style of kitchen.

The family compound is off a small laneway, accessible only on foot or motorbike, off one of Kuta’s busiest tourist streets. The family is worried at how both Corby and the rest of the extended family will cope with the intrusive media presence which is expected to shadow her every move after she gets out of jail.)

Officials from the Corrections Board and the parole authority inspected the home as part of their deliberations and to be assured that it was a suitable place for Corby to live whilst on parole.

They interviewed Mercedes and Wayan and received a guarantee from the local community chief that he was satisfied Corby could live in the district.

Parole authorities say that the home must be Corby’s principal place of residence but that she can go on holiday and stay anywhere she likes, so long as she advises the auhorities of this and has it cleared through them.

And the authrotiies say that she does not have to spend her first night or nights of freedom in Mercede and Wayan’s home – she may go to a villa or hotel or another house if she likes, providing she has permission to do so.

It seems most likely that Corby will not spend her first nights in the busy Kuta family home. Specuation is rife that if she sells her first tell-all interview to a TV network they will spirit her away to a high-security and high-walled villa somewhere in Bali to keep her away from prying eyes.

And even if this does not happen the family is very concerned that the intense media presence will be too much for her at the Kuta family home and that her first days will need to somewhere more private.

So far Corby’s support crew consists largely of her sister Mercedes, who has lived in Bali for the past nine years, looking after her sister and helping her cope in jail, along with the constant work to win her clemency and now parole.

Mercedes or Wayan drop off food almost every day to her at the jail and visit, but the visits are less frequent these days because Corby does not like coming to the crowded visiting area where she constantly fears being photographed and hassled.

Her older brother Michael also spends large amounts of time in Bali and mother Rosleigh Rose is a frequent visitor. Ms Rose intends to come to Bali as soon as se knows her daughter is getting out.

Corby’s parole conditions are quite standard –

-Not commit any crimes;

-Not to use or distribute drugs of any kind;

-Report to her parole officers one a month;

-Receive guidance from the parole officers

-Dress moderately and neatly when meeting parole officers.

Breaches of the parole would mean a trip straight back to jail and the officers have warned her of this.

In addition, the Australian Government, who has given Corby a letter of guarantee which formed part of her parole application, will require her to report regularly to the Australian Consulate in Bali.

Corby will be required to remain in Indonesia and will not be allowed to leave until her sentence expires in May 2016. She will then also be required to remain there for another year, under parole supervision, until May 2017.

Only then will she be allowed to fly back to Australia.