2017 National Conference on Judicial Reform - Working Group V

A Judiciary That Safeguards Social Security

The 5th Working Group of the 2017 Presidential Office National Conference on Judicial Reform held a total of 8 meetings focusing on five core issues: prison administration reform, criminal policies on drugs and mental illness, effective crime fighting, crime prevention, and child- and gender-friendly justice. This page compiles all meeting materials and related articles for easy reference

8

Working Group Meetings

5

Core Issues

2017

Held in

20

Participating Members

AGENDA

Five Discussion Topics

Working Group V covered the following five thematic directions, discussed in depth across successive meetings:

5-1 | Prison Administration Reform

Improving judicial remedy channels for criminal execution procedures, promoting transparency in inmate treatment and parole, resolving prison overcrowding, strengthening prison personnel and equipment, and improving current medical conditions in correctional facilities.

5-2 | Review of Criminal Policies on Substance Abuse and Mental Illness Crimes

Comprehensively reviewing anti-drug policies and the severe punishment of drug offenses (including the review of "one crime, one punishment" for drug use), promoting diverse treatment options for addiction rehabilitation, integrating judicial, medical, and social work resources, evaluating the return of correctional detention to the medical system of the Ministry of Health and Welfare, and establishing prevention and treatment models for offenders with mental illness.

5-3 | Effectively Combating Crime

Reviewing anti-corruption legal systems (review of the offense of drawing illegal benefits, private-sector anti-corruption), strengthening systems to prevent flight and recover assets, establishing sentencing guidelines, introducing the offense of obstructing justice, and enforcing corporate criminal liability (food safety, drug safety, occupational safety, environmental pollution, etc.).

5-4 | Crime Prevention and Management

Reviewing support systems for the social reintegration of rehabilitated offenders, the adult probation system, community-based treatments, and security dispositions, strengthening crime prevention research and education (including criminal psychology, etc.), improving police crime prevention strategies, and utilizing judicial statistics to enhance practical operation quality.

5-5 | Review of Child- and Gender-Friendly Judicial Systems

Reforming juvenile correctional education (evaluating the comprehensive restructuring of juvenile reformatory schools into correctional schools), reviewing the institutional affiliation of juvenile placement and reformatory institutions, and evaluating the feasibility of administrative priority for at-risk children and youth and improved judicial treatment for drug-using children and youth.

MEETING RECORDS

Meeting Materials

The video recordings, official complete materials, and reviews/short notes for all 8 meetings of Working Group V are provided below for direct viewing.

2017-03-02 1st Meeting

Meeting Video Complete Materials Review

2017-03-16 2nd Meeting

Meeting Video Complete Materials Review

2017-03-30 3rd Meeting

Meeting Video Complete Materials Short Notes + Review

2017-04-20 4th Meeting

Meeting Video Complete Materials Short Notes

2017-05-04 5th Meeting

Discussion Topic: Strengthening Flight Prevention Systems, Sentencing Guidelines, Corporate Crime, and Offenses of Obstructing Justice

Meeting Video Complete Materials Review

2017-05-11 2nd Additional Meeting

Discussion Topic: Support Systems for the Social Reintegration of Rehabilitated Offenders, Police Crime Prevention Strategies, Corporate Crime

Meeting Video Complete Materials Review

2017-05-18 6th Meeting

Discussion Topic: Child Protection, Juvenile Correctional Education, Electronic Shackles, Sexual Assault Victims' Right to Participate in Proceedings

Meeting Video Complete Materials Short Notes

2017-05-25 3rd Additional Meeting

Discussion Topic: Prison Medical Improvements, Review of Drug Enforcement and Severe Drug Punishment Policies, Diverse Treatment for Drug Addiction Rehabilitation, DUI Treatment, Crime Prevention for Psychiatric Patients, Anti-Corruption Legal Systems, Strengthening Flight Prevention and Judicial Statistical Research Mechanisms

Meeting Video Complete Materials Review

AGENDA ITEMS

Working Group Topics and Subtopics

The specific subtopics for the five core issues are as follows:

No. Issue Subtopic Description
5-1	Prison Administration Reform

1. Review of judicial remedy channels for criminal execution procedures
2. Transparency in inmate treatment and parole
3. Strengthening and expansion of prison personnel (custody, moral education, technical training) and equipment
4. Inmate overcrowding issue
5. Current medical status in correctional facilities and recommendations for improvement
   

5-2

Review of Criminal Policies on Substance Abuse and Mental Illness Crimes

1. Review of anti-drug policies and severe drug punishment policies (including the review of "one crime, one punishment" for drug use offenses)
2. Improvement of diverse treatment models for addiction rehabilitation among drug users, integrating judicial, medical, and social work resources, and returning correctional detention to the medical system of the Ministry of Health and Welfare
3. Diverse treatments for driving under the influence (DUI)
4. Prevention and treatment models for offenders with mental illness
   

5-3

Effectively Combating Crime

1. Review of anti-corruption legal systems (review of the offense of drawing illegal benefits, private-sector anti-corruption, review of anti-corruption organizations)
2. Strengthening flight prevention systems
3. Strengthening asset recovery systems
4. Establishment of sentencing guidelines
5. Obstructing justice
6. Corporate crime (including food safety, drug safety, occupational safety accidents, environmental pollution, etc.)
7. Investigation management
   

5-4

Crime Prevention and Management

1. Review of social reintegration of rehabilitated offenders and various support measures
2. Review of the adult probation system
3. Review of community treatment and security dispositions
4. Strengthening crime prevention research and education (including criminal psychology, etc.)
5. Review of police crime prevention strategies
6. Establishment of a research mechanism/institution, utilizing judicial statistics to enhance the quality of judicial practical operations
   

5-5

Review of Child- and Gender-Friendly Judicial Systems

1. Reform of juvenile correctional education (evaluating the comprehensive conversion of juvenile reformatory schools into juvenile correctional schools; reviewing whether institutional affiliation should be under the Agency of Corrections, Ministry of Justice or the Ministry of Education)
2. Comprehensive review of the content of execution and counseling methods for juveniles in correctional institutions, and perfecting the establishment for social reintegration
3. Equality of treatment for female juveniles undergoing institutional treatment
4. Evaluating the feasibility of administrative priority for at-risk children and youth and improved judicial treatment for drug-using children and youth
   

PARTICIPANTS

List of Participating Members

Convener

• Andy Liang President, Wealth Magazine

Preparatory Members

• Shiow-Duan Hwang Professor, Department of Political Science & Dean, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Soochow University
• Tsai Hsiu-chuan Standing Supervisor, Transparency International Taiwan

Working Group Members

• Wang Yifan Chief Investigation and Protection Officer, Investigation and Protection Office, Taiwan Keelung District Court
• Ewam Lin Security Guard, Yilan Prison, Agency of Corrections, Ministry of Justice
• Chiu Chin-ting Chairman, Securities Investmentper And Futures Investor Protection Center
• Susyan Jou Professor and Director, Graduate Institute of Criminology, National Taipei University
• Chi Hui-jung Chief Executive Officer, Garden of Hope Foundation
• Hsu Chu-feng Standing Supervisor, New Taipei City Love of Hometown Association
• Kuang-Ming Chang Professor, Department of Administrative Police & Police Policy Research Center, Central Police University
• Beck Liu Writer, Fellowship of Reconstructors Volunteer
• Liu Shu-chiung Chairman, Taiwan Healthcare Reform Foundation
• Lee Ming-hung Judge, Taiwan Kaohsiung Juvenile and Family Court
• Xu Shifeng Judge, Taiwan High Court
• Yu Li-chen Deputy Director, Department of Prosecutorial Affairs, Ministry of Justice
• Chen Hung-ta Chief Prosecutor, Taiwan Keelung District Prosecutors Office
• Huang Hsu-tien Board Director, Citizen and Legal Education Foundation
• Lai Fang-yu Managing Attorney, Family Law Department, Lex Meridien Law Firm
• Lin Chih-chieh Professor and Associate Dean, College of Law for Science and Technology, National Chiao Tung University
• Lu Ying-chieh Professor, Department of Law, National Chung Cheng University
  

RELATED ARTICLES

Meeting-Related Articles (Categorized by Issue)

Commentary and research articles published by the JRF regarding the issues of Working Group V, categorized by theme as follows:

▸ Prison / Correctional Reform

Prison Systems

• Prison Reform Policies Beginning with the End in Mind
• A Brief Analysis of "Prison Medical Care"
• Medical Records Provided by Imprisonment—Medical Care for Inmates
• Taiwan's Recidivism Rate and Prison Correctional Efficacy—A Preliminary Study
• Ministry of Justice: Correctional Reform Steps Not Yet Taken?
  

▸ Drug Policy

Substance Abuse and Criminal Policy

• A Health-Centric Drug Policy
• A Drug Policy Without Truth
• Responding to Substance Abuse: From Penalties to Decriminalization, What Countermeasures Are Available?
• Changing "One Crime, One Punishment" = Unlimited Drug Use? Unlimited Drug Trafficking?
• Drug Possession Grams: Raising or Lowering Both Are Wrong?
• The Hardships of Drug Enforcement: What Has Actually Changed?
• Crimes of Drug Supply: The Heavier, the More Effective?
  

▸ Juvenile Justice

Juvenile Correction and Protection

• A Brief Discussion on Juvenile Justice: With a Discussion on the Current Status and Challenges of Placement and Reformation
• The Long Journey Home for Reformed Juveniles
• After Judicial Reform: Vanished Juvenile Issues
  

▸ Crime Fighting / Police Administration

Police Performance and Crime Prevention

• Investigation Management: Police Performance Reform
• The Performance Truth That the National Police Agency Dares Not Face
• Police Union: "All-Encompassing Duties with No Limit, Performance Out of Control Until Worked to Death" Press Conference
  

▸ Criminal Policy Research

Policy Analysis and Others

• Decriminalization of Minor Offenses as a Method of Judicial Reduction
• Where Should Taiwan's Criminal Policy Research Go?
• Speech Word Count Statistics for Working Group V of the Judicial Reform Congress
  

▸ Other Working Groups

2017 National Conference on Judicial Reform

• Working Group I: Protecting Victims and Vulnerable Groups
• Working Group II: A Judiciary Trusted by All Citizens, Impartial and Professional
• Working Group III: A Judiciary with Corresponding Responsibilities and High Efficiency
• Working Group IV: A Participatory, Transparent, and Accessible Judiciary
• 2017 Judicial Reform Resolutions: Monitoring and Implementation
  

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Last Edited Date: 2026-04-27