Introduction to Different Treatments for Prisoners
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To encourage family members of prisoners to support their compliance during incarceration and to help them appreciate the rare opportunity of being selected for an open prison, we introduce the following advantageous conditions compared to regular prisons:
- Security aspects:
- Living quarters type: Multi-person dormitory style with open sleeping platforms, spacious areas, good lighting and ventilation. Each person has a fixed bed.
- Life management: No walls or restrictions, employing an open low-level management approach; daytime work inside the prison or at external contracted factories, evening activities in recreation rooms including television watching, exercise, free reading of books and newspapers, etc.
- Rehabilitation aspects:
- Education time: Both daytime and evening schedules include calligraphy classes, erhu classes, and other educational activities.
- Guidance methods: Since prisoners work during the day, various group counseling sessions, religious instruction, and recreational activities are held during both daytime and evening hours.
- Equipped with hardware facilities for prisoner education and recreational audio-visual playback (such as karaoke, television, and regular film screenings).
- Work aspects:
- Working hours shall be determined according to rehabilitation needs, quantity, types of work, equipment conditions, and other circumstances, not exceeding eight hours daily. However, under special circumstances, working hours may be extended, with the extended working hours plus normal working hours not exceeding 12 hours per day.
- prisoner labor compensation distribution: After deducting operational expenses from work income, the remaining funds are distributed as follows:
- Sixty percent allocated to labor compensation.
- Ten percent allocated to victim compensation fees.
- Ten percent allocated to prisoner food subsidy costs.
- The remainder allocated to prisoner vocational training, improvement of living facilities, and subsidies for prisoners and their families.
- Any surplus shall be transferred to the Correctional Agency Operations Fund of Ministry of Justice for circular use.
- Work types: Work primarily consists of outdoor agricultural/livestock work or external employment. Prisoners' work may be organized into teams according to the nature of the work, with team sizes determined according to actual needs.
- Healthcare and disease prevention:
- Healthcare
- Injured or ill prisoners receive medical services provided under National Health Insurance or treatment by physicians appointed by the prison (providing evening and holiday clinic services to accommodate prisoners' schedules). In urgent medical situations, or when deemed necessary by a physician after examination, the prison may transfer the prisoner to a medical institution or prison hospital for treatment. Medical and transportation costs for transfers to medical institutions deemed necessary by a physician after examination shall be borne by the prisoner. If appropriate treatment remains impossible or unfeasible, the prison may report to the supervisory agency for approval of medical release after considering medical advice; in emergency situations, the prison may first grant medical release and subsequently report to the supervisory agency for reference. The period of medical release shall not count toward the sentence duration.
- The prison creates a high-quality, healthy, and safe custody environment, encouraging prisoners to develop daily regular exercise habits, and provides prisoners with "Self-Health Management Passports" to promote prisoners' self-health management abilities and medication self-management, enhancing prisoners' physical and mental health and quality of life.
- Disease prevention
- HIV/AIDS prevention HIV and syphilis blood screening is conducted for newly admitted prisoners within 1 month of entry and annually for all prisoners. Additionally, health education promotion is conducted to promote AIDS prevention, enabling prisoners to understand HIV transmission routes and relevant knowledge about preventive measures.
- Tuberculosis prevention Chest X-ray examinations are conducted for newly admitted prisoners within 1 month of entry and annually for all prisoners.
- Tracking of prisoners with chronic diseases Prisoners suffering from chronic diseases are listed for tracking and timely health education, and are educated on continuing medical appointments and medication adherence to avoid discontinuation of treatment.
- Vaccination against infectious diseases To prevent cluster infections among prisoners, vaccinations against infectious diseases are planned to avoid infection.