Commentary

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25Mar.
2021

Comments and Recommendations on Q4 2020 External Inspection Reports for Correctional Institutions

Judicial Reform Foundation

After the amended Prison Act and Detention Act introduced independent external inspection panels, the first quarterly…

01Mar.
2021

Job Opening | JRF Taipei and Taichung Offices: Full-Time Staff Attorneys (Closed)

Judicial Reform Foundation

JRF is recruiting two full-time staff attorneys for its Taipei and Taichung offices. The work spans wrongful-conviction…

18Feb.
2021

When Will the Dark Night Give Way to Dawn? - Visitor No. 448 Meets Chiou Ho-shun and Reflects on "Hai-Wang's Daybreak" in Zhunan

Chao Fang-Li / JRF Intern

After visiting the Zhunan exhibition and then meeting Chiou Ho-shun at the Taipei Detention Center, Visitor No. 448…

17Feb.
2021

JRF Social Work Internship | Recognizing "Conflict": Field Observations from a Social-Work Internship

Chang Che-Chih / Department of Social Work, National Taiwan University

A social-work intern reflects on how advocacy workers at JRF encounter value conflicts: between flexibility and…

17Feb.
2021

Recognizing Conflict, Shaping Roles, Seeing Ourselves: Field Observations from Three Social-Work Interns in 2020

Li Ming-Ju

This reflection looks at what three social-work interns saw inside JRF: recurring value conflicts, the way professional…

17Feb.
2021

Lost Justice - Reflections on "Hai-Wang's Daybreak" in Zhunan

Liao Yu-Wen / Student at Yunlin County Touliu Senior High School, Volunteer at JRF Taichung Office

A visitor reflects on the reconstructed visitation room and death-row cell, recordings of torture, Chiou Ho-shun's…

15Feb.
2021

The Road Home - Reflections on "Hai-Wang's Daybreak" in Zhunan

Li Ming-Chen / Department of Law, National Cheng Kung University & JRF Taichung Office Volunteer

A visitor describes how the Zhunan exhibition challenged an earlier assumption that wrongful-conviction cases might…

07Feb.
2021

JRF Social Work Internship | Shaping a Role: How Professional Staff Develop in a Legal Advocacy Organization

Chen I-Hung / Department of Social Work, National Taiwan University

This field study examines how JRF staff acquire legal, advocacy, communication, and collaborative skills; how…

06Feb.
2021

JRF Social Work Internship | Cross-Disciplinary Learning While Preserving the Self

Peng Li-Chiao / Soochow University Graduate School of Social Work

Through court observation in the March 23 Executive Yuan occupation case, the Su Chien-Ho civil case, and minor-offense…