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Enter 2020.12.31 21:00
Edit 2020.12.31 22:50
3 steps to distance prisons
Approximately 900 confirmed in the East Detention Center
3 KF94 masks per week
Reduction in density, such as increased probation
In complete isolation from confirmed prisoners
Concerns arise over human rights violations
With more than 900 confirmed Corona 19 cases related to the Seoul East Detention Center, the Ministry of Justice has raised the distance within correctional facilities across the country to three stages. It will block the influx of infections from outside by restricting interviews with attorneys, and will adhere to quarantine rules such as providing masks and reducing the level of internal contact. It was noted that prohibiting the sending of external correspondence from confirmed prisoners could lead to human rights violations.
On the 31st, Vice Minister of Justice Lee Yong-gu (pictured) held a briefing at the government office in Seoul and said, “We will raise social distancing within the correctional facility to three stages for two weeks from today until the 13th. January next year “. During this period, outside interviews, work, and education are completely restricted to minimize contact between inmates. Interviews with attorneys are also limited. Correctional facility personnel maintain an emergency work system and, in principle, outdoor activities are prohibited.
From that day on, the Ministry of Justice decided to provide 3 KF94 masks per person per week to some 50,000 prisoners and 16,000 employees of correctional facilities across the country. The Suwon Detention Center and Incheon Detention Center, which have a high-rise building structure similar to the East Seoul Detention Center, decided to conduct a genetic amplification (PCR) diagnostic test for all employees and arrested in the near future. To prevent further spread by asymptomatic patients, rapid antigen testing is also performed on all correctional facility staff and inmates.
Measures are also taken to reduce the reception density. The Ministry of Justice also decided to carry out conditional release for labor prisoners, those with underlying illnesses that can be seriously aggravated, and exemplary prisoners from the 14th. Additional transfers of prisoners to the Eastern Detention Center are also considered. 175 unconfirmed prisoners who tested negative at Dongbu Detention Center were transferred to three institutions, including Seoul South Prison on the 19th, and 126 were transferred to Gangwon North Prison on the 30th. On the 28th, 345 were transferred Mild and asymptomatic additional prisoners among confirmed patients at Dongbu Detention Center.
The number of confirmed cases related to the Dongbu Detention Center at 5 pm on the 31st since the first member of the Dongbu Detention Center on November 27 was infected by his family. It has 21 employees and 897 prisoners. The Justice Ministry said there were 535 in the East Detention Center, 345 in North Gyeongsang Province Prison 2, 21 in Gwangju Prison, 16 in South Prison, 2 in Seoul Prison and 6 confirmed in North Gangwon Prison. On the 27th, after the Eastern Detention Center, one of the two corona19 confirmed prisoners died in the Seoul Detention Center in Uiwang-si, Gyeonggi-do that day. He was a detainee in his 30s with underlying conditions such as severe hypertension. He died while being treated by the medical staff at the detention center after being confirmed.
Vice Minister Lee said of the cause of the group infection in the East Detention Center: “As a result of an epidemiological study, five buildings in the form of a high-rise building and the structure of the facilities and ventilation facilities connected to each floor, the environment in which a large number of prisoners live and asymptomatic after the third pandemic The point of not predicting the possibility of infection by a child ”and so on.
The experts pointed out that as the closure of prisons intensifies due to the reinforcement of the distance, care must be taken to prevent violations of the human rights of prisoners. In particular, the prohibition of sending external correspondence for confirmed cases in prisons can lead to human rights violations. Kang Seong-joon, an activist with the Catholic Human Rights Committee, said: “When inmates experience unjust things inside the detention center, the correspondence is a representative means of notifying the outside of the National Human Rights Commission. I don’t know if it is. “Alternatives such as disinfecting correspondence or sending by proxy are discussed. An official from the Ministry of Justice said:” The quarantine authorities have recommended that all items related to the confirmed person be quarantined and it is prohibited sending correspondence. Even confirmed patients can receive correspondence. “
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