Correctional Human Rights Lecture | What Does It Have to Do with Me? Key Issues in Correctional Institutions

At the April 20 Prison Human Rights and Judicial Reform lecture, Attorneys Liu Chi-Wei and Chen Wei-Chiao discussed political and civic rights effectively denied to inmates and the difficulties people in custody face when trying to assert their rights.

This time, we have invited Chen Hui-Min, Chairperson of the Taiwan Association for Prisoners' Rights, to discuss the difficulties faced by inmates and their families.

The Taiwan Association for Prisoners' Rights has long focused on the circumstances of people in prison and their families. Its premise is that correctional reform can help drive judicial reform in one direction and broader social reform in the other, contributing to a social safety net built on mutual support, non-discrimination, respect for difference, opportunity, and dignity. Correspondence, visits, medical care, parole, and release all involve restrictions inside and outside prison walls. Some are predictable; some lack statutory authorization; others are startling when heard for the first time. What problems lie behind those restrictions? What institutional structures produce them? How can they be changed-and what do they have to do with the rest of us?

We warmly invite you to join us in examining these key correctional issues and their relationship to judicial reform.

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Time

April 27 (Tue.), 7:00-9:00 p.m.

Venue

2F., Judicial Reform Foundation Taichung Office

Speaker

Keynote Speaker Chen Hui-Min / Chairperson, Taiwan Association for Prisoners' Rights
Moderator Chang Hua-Che / Legal Specialist, Judicial Reform Foundation