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Japan: Tokyo High Court awards incarcerated person over $1,300 for forced strip search
The Tokyo High Court ordered the government to pay 200,000 yen (about $1,350) in damages to an incarcerated man who filed a lawsuit demanding compensation for being stripped naked in what he argued was an illegal body search.Japan: Fuchu Prison adapting to foreign prisoners
“We don’t really give them special treatment just because they are foreign nationals,” said Atsushi Takada, an official at the prison. “But since the environment and culture in which they were brought up is too different from that of Japan’s, we need to treat them differently.”
Le Japon exécute des condamnés à mort, pour la première fois depuis 2019
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Japon : Les prisons japonaises s’adaptent au vieillissement de leurs détenus
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Japon : des condamnés à mort poursuivent le gouvernement en justice
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Inside Japan’s chilling death row prisons where inmates are executed with no warning after decades waiting to die
Seven members of a brainwashed doomsday cult were hanged last week in a sterile Japanese execution chamber for carrying out a deadly gas attack in 1995. The Asian country is one of only two first world democracies, along with the US, who kill their own citizens.Japan: new magazine offers convicts hope of escaping from a life of crime
To prevent those with criminal convictions from committing further offenses after leaving correctional facilities, a job magazine for people with a history of crime or delinquency will be distributed at prisons and juvenile training schools nationwide starting mid-July.Japan: the arrested development of female prisons
Though the prison population in Japan is remarkably small compared to other countries, there have been increases in recent years among certain demographics. The media is particularly sensitive to elderly inmates. Less remarked upon are female prisoners.Japan: justice chief targets Juvenile Law so 18-year-olds can be charged as adults
Justice Minister Katsutoshi Kaneda has consulted an advisory panel about the possibility of lowering the age of criminal adulthood to 18 from 20, a move critics claim could deprive 18- and 19-year-old offenders of the rehabilitation opportunities guaranteed by the Juvenile Law.Japan: justice chief targets Juvenile Law so 18-year-olds can be charged as adults
Justice Minister Katsutoshi Kaneda has consulted an advisory panel about the possibility of lowering the age of criminal adulthood to 18 from 20, a move critics claim could deprive 18- and 19-year-old offenders of the rehabilitation opportunities guaranteed by the Juvenile Law.
Japan : Asahikawa prison revamped for elderly inmates
Should prison facilities be friendly to aging inmates or remain punitively hard for criminals? It is a question that was faced by Asahikawa Prison in Hokkaido, which was remodeled and reopened earlier this year. The three-story, reinforced concrete building has about 500 private cells, each equippe…