Commentary

2021
Comments and Recommendations on Q4 2020 External Inspection Reports for Correctional Institutions
After the amended Prison Act and Detention Act introduced independent external inspection panels, the first quarterly…

2021
Job Opening | JRF Taipei and Taichung Offices: Full-Time Staff Attorneys (Closed)
JRF is recruiting two full-time staff attorneys for its Taipei and Taichung offices. The work spans wrongful-conviction…

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

2021
JRF Social Work Internship | Recognizing "Conflict": Field Observations from a Social-Work Internship
A social-work intern reflects on how advocacy workers at JRF encounter value conflicts: between flexibility and…

2021
Recognizing Conflict, Shaping Roles, Seeing Ourselves: Field Observations from Three Social-Work Interns in 2020
This reflection looks at what three social-work interns saw inside JRF: recurring value conflicts, the way professional…
2021
Lost Justice - Reflections on "Hai-Wang's Daybreak" in Zhunan
A visitor reflects on the reconstructed visitation room and death-row cell, recordings of torture, Chiou Ho-shun's…

2021
The Road Home - Reflections on "Hai-Wang's Daybreak" in Zhunan
A visitor describes how the Zhunan exhibition challenged an earlier assumption that wrongful-conviction cases might…

2021
JRF Social Work Internship | Shaping a Role: How Professional Staff Develop in a Legal Advocacy Organization
This field study examines how JRF staff acquire legal, advocacy, communication, and collaborative skills; how…

2021
JRF Social Work Internship | Cross-Disciplinary Learning While Preserving the Self
Through court observation in the March 23 Executive Yuan occupation case, the Su Chien-Ho civil case, and minor-offense…
