External Inspection of Prisons
To ensure that external prison inspection panels function effectively, the Judicial Reform Foundation and the Taiwan Association for Human Rights (Covenants Watch) are working to compile good practices and key inspection focuses for external prison oversight. This work is currently ongoing.
2025
Establishing and Deepening the Independent External Inspection System of Correctional Institutions — A General Review of the External Inspection Reports of Institutions from the Second Term (Q4 of 2022 to Q3 of 2024)
As the second term of the external inspection teams has ended in the second half of 2024, the Judicial Reform…
2024
Press Conference: Ending the Chaos in Member Selection and Restoring the True Face of Independent Prison External Oversight Groups
Since the implementation of the new Prison Act and Detention Act on July 15, 2020, independent 'external oversight…
2023
2023 Autumn Reading Group｜Key Readers for Prison External Inspection Reports Needed!
We invite friends who care about prison issues and wish to contribute to become key readers of prison external…
2023
Press Conference | Good or Bad, Every Example Serves as a Lesson: Overall Evaluation of the Reports from the First Term of Prison and Detention House External Inspection Panels
One of the highlights of the amendments to the Prison Act and the Detention Act is that, to implement the principle of…
2022
Press Conference | Ensure External Independence and Transparent Oversight-2021 Annual Review of Correctional External Inspection Panels
One year after the Prison Act and Detention Act created independent external inspection panels, the JRF reviewed…