Talk:Penal system of Japan

message: A bit feature of the Japanese penal system is the ability to detain without charge a suspect for 3 weeks, and then apply for unlimited further 3 week extensions. This would be considered a gross violation of human rights in most civilised countries of the world. Additionally, conditions are very harsh with prisoners being forced to stare at walls on their knees without talking for hours at a time, submit to beatings etc. 
It would also be interesting to note how organised crime works in Japanese prisons, and the proportion of Koreans inside Japanese gaols (sorry don't have any stats).
"Although volunteers are sometimes criticized for being too old compared with their charges (more than 70 percent are retired and are age fifty-five or over) and thus unable to understand the problems their charges faced, most authorities believe that the volunteers are critically important in the nation's criminal justice system." This is totally meaningless. If the volunteer has undergone training, he/she would be perfectly capable of dealing with ex prisoners. Also the more years of service a volunteer has put into the job, the better able he/she would be. There is also no citation for this comment, it seems to be just a personal view. Any opinions?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 125.63.139.96 (talk) 00:17, 19 May 2011 (UTC)
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message: I found a documentry called Japan from Inside that explains the Japanese prison system in a while balanced manner.  I think information from is worthy of being added:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJp9nKaO7c4  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Graylandertagger (talk • contribs) 00:00, 4 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: I found an interesting documentry on Japanese prisons.

message: I was doing research on deaths that occur in Japanese prisons and was able to find two reports that explain how prison deaths aren't fully examined.
This report is on how deaths in prison arn't examined to the fullest extent, and while it does leave room for questions(claims that many who died were said to have has psysical illnesses), it does create and prove the possiblity of how actual abuses can go unchecked:
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(03)14321-8/fulltext#back-bib5 
I also found a report from the US Department of State department that mentions  that a special team investigation 1,566 prisoner deaths from 1993 to 2002 which claims that almost one-third of the cases involved suspicious circumstances. 
http://www.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2003/27772.htm  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Graylandertagger (talk • contribs) 21:12, 21 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Found two reports that properly explain how deaths in prisons aren't fully examined.

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