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US offers Julian Assange time in Australian prison instead of American supermax if he loses London extradition fight

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Re: Out of the loop here

...and meanwhile, with a court case still pending, he can be held "on remand" because he's a proven flight-risk. Time spent "on-remand" is almost always subtracted from any eventual custodial sentence as "time served", which can and does mean it's possible to be given a custodial sentence and then immediately released.

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