SEOUL, Nov. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – Inmates once held at prisons and detention centers nationwide have successfully obtained compensation after filing a lawsuit against the government. They alleged that overcrowding in these facilities led to both mental and physical suffering. The court has awarded damages to 47 inmates, with individual payouts ranging from 50,000 won to [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – A group of inmates has achieved success by winning various open competitions after acquiring webtoon production techniques through a prison vocational training program. This accomplishment followed the Ministry of Justice’s focused efforts to provide intensive education on technology related to the modern age of cultural content, aiming to ensure the [...]
SEOUL, June 16 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of phone calls allowed for inmates at South Korean prisons will be greatly increased. The Ministry of Justice announced a plan to increase the number of phone calls allowed for inmates at six prisons on a trial basis starting from August as part of efforts to strengthen [...]
SEOUL, May 10 (Korea Bizwire) — The state human rights watchdog has recommended the government take steps to provide vegetarian inmates at correctional institutions with proper vegetarian meals, officials said Tuesday. The National Human Rights Commission made the recommendation last month, urging the justice minister to revise the relevant law or come up with a [...]
SEOUL, March 12 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean prisoners who typically work in a variety of prison-support jobs will now be subject to the government’s recent 52-hour workweek initiative. On Thursday, the Ministry of Justice released an advance legislation notice for a revision of the law on the execution of sentences and the treatment of [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — After the news came out that a karaoke room, called “noraebang” in Korean, and arcade game machines had been installed for prison inmates, local citizens showed mixed responses. On Wednesday, Jeonju Prison located in Jeonju, North Jeolla Province opened a string of facilities to help reduce stress levels in [...]