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[Reporter Xie Junlin/Taipei Report] Chiayi Prison’s Lucao Sub-prison was surrounded and beaten at the end of last year. Supervisors Wang Meiyu, Gao Yongcheng, and Su Liqiong investigated and found that the prison personnel did not follow the regulations when conducting investigations and interviews after the incident. There are obviously major violations in the implementation of interview recordings.

The Control Yuan approved the correction of the Lucao Branch of Chiayi Prison, and asked the Director of the Department of Corrections of the Ministry of Justice, the Lucao Branch, to review and improve.

The Supervisory Committee stated that the Lucao Sub-prison had a beating incident in December of the previous year. After reviewing the monitor screen and asking the Lucao Sub-prison to help confirm, it was discovered that the new detainee surnamed Cai had assigned the administrator to handle the new admission in the fourth factory. During the formalities, the inmates surnamed Xu, Wu, and Shen were beaten by inmates surnamed Xu, Wu, and Shen due to their poor attitude and provocative words. Another inmate surnamed Lin failed to stay where he was ordered after the arrival of the supporting police force.

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The Supervisory Committee pointed out that the number of inmates working in the workshop of the prison is large, and failure to respond carefully to emergencies will inevitably lead to emotional agitation among the group and make it difficult to maintain discipline in the prison.

In the future, the Lucao Branch Prison should take this case as a lesson and thoroughly review the process of handling new admission procedures, so as to avoid conflicts caused by unstable prison conditions.

The investigation also found that after the incident, the Lucao Sub-prison conducted investigations and interviews with a total of 6 detainees, and made interview records, but did not record all of them in accordance with the regulations, but only recorded interviews with prisoners surnamed Wu and Shen. After listening to the two recordings, the hospital found that after the interview record was completed, the interrogator and the interrogated detainee read it back from the script, which would fail to achieve the standard purpose of ensuring the accuracy of the interview record with the recording.

In addition, the correctional institution cooperates with Air University to provide detainee education.

However, in the past, due to the convenience of management, Chiayi Prison arbitrarily changed the teaching classrooms of large class detainees, and allowed the supervisors to mismanage the detainees. Chiayi Prison has dealt with the relevant violations accordingly, including that the classrooms have been adjusted to the original teaching classrooms, and The personnel involved in improper management shall be transferred away and punished with admonition.

Correctional institutions should take this case as a lesson to avoid similar cases from happening again.

The investigation of this case found that Chiayi Prison has implemented a management method of silence for the entire prison, but three supervisory committee members said that the prison adopts a "speaking silence" management method that prohibits the inmates from talking, which may help the prison management, but the education department for the inmates It does not seem to be of any practical benefit; if it is only for the convenience of management, it seems necessary to limit the timing of its activation, rather than as a normal management method.

In addition, the Prison Court has recently received reports that when detainees send and receive letters, correctional institutions must stamp each page, which is questioned as "false inspection in the name of reading in reality" and infringes on detainees' freedom of confidential communication. The current practice There doesn't seem to be any blocking mechanism.

Therefore, in order to comply with the Judicial Yuan Interpretation No. 756 to protect the freedom of secret communication of detainees, the Correctional Office of the Ministry of Justice still has room for review and improvement of the current practice.