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Secretary General Oh Chang-ik “It is an obvious excuse for not having a budget for masks”
“The court and the prosecution are inertia, and the jails are full.”
On the 29th, a prisoner said: ‘Please save me at the Dongbu Detention Center in Songpa-gu, Seoul, where more than 750 confirmed cases occurred due to a new group coronavirus infection (Corona 19). An article is displayed that says: ‘Accommodating 8 Confirmed Patients’ ordered by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Reporter Seo Jae-hoon
There are voices criticizing the easy response from the Ministry of Justice, with a cumulative number of confirmed cases exceeding 700 due to a massive infection of the new coronavirus (Corona 19) in the eastern detention center in Seoul.
Oh Chang-ik, the general secretary of Solidarity for Human Rights, who has pointed out the bad reality of Korean prisons, appeared on KBS Radio’s ‘Kim Kyung-rae’s Strongest Current Affairs’ on the 30th, and a lack of will caused the situation in the East Detention Center, such as the overcrowded environment of the prisons and the lack of payment for masks. Indicated.
Secretary General Oh presented that he had been in charge of training inmates at various detention centers and had visited the eastern detention center more than 50 times, where the outbreak occurred.
10 months have passed since the spread of the crown, but the masks cannot be paid for … “It’s a matter of will”
The Seoul East Detention Center on the afternoon of the 30th. An actor
Secretary-General Oh Chang-ik noted that correctional authorities did not adequately prepare for Corona 19 in the eastern detention center as the cause of the large-scale spread.
He said: “The people who run the East Detention Center felt very comfortable and did a job close to job abandonment,” he said. “If the crown is in February or March, the correctional authorities can also live a long time, but people have been learning about the virus for more than ten months.” If the correctional authorities did not know this, it would not make sense.
In particular, Secretary Oh insisted that the masks were not properly provided to the eastern detention center, saying: “Because they are basically criminals, there is a sense of neglect.” He said: “On December 2 alone, there is an article that says a correctional commissioner donated 2,500 masks,” he said. “Actually, a large-scale infection is predicted.”
The Justice Ministry explained that it was unable to deliver masks due to budget problems, but Secretary Oh said, “an obvious excuse.” “The total number of prisoners in the prison exceeds 50,000, so it costs a lot of money, but donations could have been received through religious institutions, etc.” It is not a question of will, “he criticized.
If only one inmate is infected, the entire corridor is at risk
A bus convoy to transport some of the Crown-confirmed 19 detainees will leave Seoul’s East Detention Center on the 30th.
Overcrowding and prison conditions were also mentioned as problems.
Secretary-General Oh Chang-ik said: “It is very difficult for five or six people, seven or eight people to use it in one room,” he said. “In such an environment, it is not possible to correct or correct.” He also noted that “prison guards and prisoners are not separated from each other. If a prisoner becomes infected with a virus in a room, not only the people in the room, but also the entire corridor becomes dangerous and the guard in prison becomes dangerous. “
Article 14 of the Law on the Execution of Penalties and Treatment of Detainees (Central Execution Law) stipulates in principle that prisoners can live alone (one person per room). Additionally, the Constitutional Court ruled in 2016 that overcrowding in detention centers violated the dignity and values of inmates as human beings, and was unconstitutional.
However, there are three tracks in the Criminal Enforcement Act that allow marriage (multiple accommodation in one room) and the reality of the operation of correctional facilities makes it difficult to accept solitary cells. Secretary General Oh noted: “Because this is a place where criminals are here, there is great discretion in doing this to maintain order.”
Additionally, Secretary General Oh argued that “half of the 50,000 prisoners in South Korea are undecided,” he said. “People who are really dangerous and those who like time bombs should be detained, but those who don’t should be able to be tried in a state of disability.” He noted that “the prosecution and the court have the inertia to lock themselves up and see the prison, so the prison is full.”
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