NCJ Number
70920
Date Published
1979
Length
7 pages
Annotation
Vocational training and education, psychological services, and other aspects of the institutional treatment of offenders are discussed for Iran, Korea, Singapore, Japan, and Sri Lanka.
Abstract
Iranian prisons have been trying to offer programs of education, vocational training, and recreation. Educational programs are designed to meet the needs of the illiterate as well as those desiring college-level instruction. Korean corrections has public vocational training institutes attached to 27 correctional institutions and 10 juvenile reform and training schools. Boy Scout programs in juvenile correctional institutions and a furlough system for inmates are considered effective in Korea. Singapore's remand prison, a custodial institution for those remanded pending trial or probation reports, as well as for newly convicted offenders awaiting transfer to other institutions, is faced by problems of overcrowding, although it has successfully instituted rehabilitation programs. Problems discussed in relation to treatment programs in Japanese open prisons involve the selection of inmates, work programs, relationships with the community, and inmate escapes. New reforms in prison administration in Sri Lanka are considered, and workshop recommendations for Sri Lanka deal with the selection of inmates for open prisons, the establishment of more semiopen and open prisons, and the allocation of prisoners to vocational training. Finally, a Japanese prison psychologist argues that psychological services for offenders should begin at the preprosecution state to help prosecution agencies divert offenders from the formal criminal justice system. No references are included.