Talk:Penal system of Japan

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)

While the Japanese justice system is definitely a problem, advocates are notorious for using emotional shock rather than substance to explain everything.

For example:The Japan Federation of Bar Associations claim that police use the Bekken Taihö tactic to rearrest detainees in the Daiyo Kangoku after 28 days of interrogation while in the station distorting the real definition of Bekken Taihö:arresting a criminal again who has been accused of committing a different crime(for example a man accused of murder could be arested again for stealing). I'll admit that it's unfair to interrogate criminal for more serious charge when arrested for a petty crime. but distorting the truth is still distorting the truth. If the definition of Bekken Taihö was as the Japan Federation of Bar Associations claimed it would be it would have been fixed a long time ago due to the shock it would have caused in the media both in Japan and throughout the first world. Granted the media didn't pay much attention to the Daiyo Kangoku system, but if the Bekken Taihö tactic involved rearresting someone while they are in the Daiyo Kangoku than it would have been revealed to the media endlessly(something like being able to restart the 23 day interrogation process wouldn't go unnoticed in the media) and removed long ago to pressure. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Graylandertagger (talk • contribs) 21:17, 21 July 2013 (UTC)

I found an interesting documentry on Japanese prisons.
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)

Found two reports that properly explain how deaths in prisons aren't fully examined.
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)

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