Forum | Reviewing the Draft Amendments to the Custodial-Disposition System
Last edited: 2026-08-30
Proposed amendments to Taiwan's custodial-disposition system would remove the maximum period for execution of a custodial disposition and create an interim-placement mechanism before a final judgment. The proposals have drawn sustained concern. For months, the Judicial Yuan and Ministry of Justice traded constitutional objections, while the Control Yuan issued a report criticizing the existing system as harmful to social reintegration and urging the Executive Yuan and Judicial Yuan to improve it. Civil society has also responded vigorously: psychiatric and forensic-psychiatric associations have repeatedly issued serious statements, while civic and social-welfare organizations have directly opposed important parts of the proposed amendments. This forum brings together scholars, practitioners, medical professionals, social-welfare workers, and human-rights advocates to review the origins of the reform, the current system, and the practical consequences of the draft.
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Time
December 26, 2021 (Sun.), 13:40-17:00
Location
Left Bank Books (No. 3-1, Zhenjiang St., Zhongzheng Dist., Taipei City), with simultaneous livestream on Facebook
Agenda
| Time | Program |
| 13:40-14:00 | Registration |
| 14:00-14:10 |
Opening Remarks Lin Chun-Hung / Chairperson, Taiwan Criminal Defense Lawyers Association |
| Perspectives | |
| 14:10-14:30 | [Medicine] Li Chun-Hung / Director, Addiction and Forensic Psychiatry Division, Chianan Psychiatric Center |
| 14:30-14:50 | [Human Rights] Sylvia Yi-Pi Huang / Executive Director, Covenants Watch |
| 14:50-15:10 | [Law] Lin Chun-Ju / Director, Legal Policy Department, Judicial Reform Foundation |
| 15:10-15:30 | [Social Welfare] Liao Fu-Yuan / Director, Fountain House, Eden Social Welfare Foundation |
| 15:30-15:50 | [Social Welfare] Chin Lin / Secretary-General, Taipei Life of Heart Association |
| 15:50-16:10 | [Correctional Institutions] Chen Hui-Min / Chairperson, Prison Watch |
| 16:10-16:30 | [Lived Experience] Wang Hsiu-Wu / Co-founder, Taiwan Mad Alliance |
| Plenary Discussion | |
| 16:30-17:00 |
Moderator Panelists |
| 17:00 | End of Event |
Organizers
Judicial Reform Foundation
Covenants Watch
Fountain House, Eden Social Welfare Foundation
Taipei Life of Heart Association
Prison Watch
Taiwan Mad Alliance
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