NCJ Number
159273
Date Published
1995
Length
100 pages
Annotation
This booklet is intended to assist foreign visitors and researchers understand Japan's corrections policies and institutional correctional system, with emphasis on the ongoing treatment systems and practices for inmates in different types of correctional institutions.
Abstract
In Japan, the term "corrections" usually refers to institutional corrections. The Rehabilitation Bureau of the Ministry of Justice handles community-based corrections. The Correction Bureau manages 300 institutions, including penal institutions for adults, custodial institutions for juveniles, and a women's guidance home designed for the rehabilitation of prostitutes. The single and centralized administration governing both adult and juvenile institutions is the main characteristic of the Japanese correctional system. Relatively few offenders are incarcerated. In 1993, only 4.7 percent of the 1,199,554 persons convicted were sentenced to imprisonment with and without forced labor; 59.6 percent of these sentences were suspended. Only 2.5 percent of the juvenile delinquents were referred to juvenile training schools in 1993. Figures, tables, photographs, inmate program descriptions, and essays by correctional personnel