Defang Education and Nursing Institute, a private institute in Miaoli County, took place. These incidents highlight the inadequacy and ineffectiveness of current mechanisms (e.g., regular assessments and surprise inspections) in preventing incidents of violent abuse in institutions. Moreover, for Class C welfare institutions for persons with disabilities, some local competent authorities still fail to ensure proper oversight, carry out counseling and improvement measures just for the sake of implementing them; and even allow such institutions to raise funds for charity. The NHRC asserts that such local governments’ inability to protect the human rights of persons with disabilities, failure to actively abolish institutions with poor evaluation results, and provision of counseling and checks just for the sake of providing them does not conform to the CRPD, International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. 77. Per a Control Yuan investigation report 63 , the NHRC notes that correctional institutions generally lack accessible environments, facilities, and equipment, and restrict the use of assistive devices by persons with disabilities for safety reasons, thus severely limiting the activity space of persons with physical or visual disabilities. These persons rely heavily on the help provided by their fellow inmates and may even have to crawl in their prison cells, depriving them of dignity. Additionally, correctional institutions do not provide communication assistance to persons with hearing or speech impairments, effectively prohibiting them from communicating with others inside the prison and with the outside world (via phone). The only communication they have is when their family members go to the prison to help them communicate, via phone, to the outside world. Furthermore, correctional institutions do not provide persons with mental disorders with sufficient medical resources and do not provide them with proper treatment in a timely manner, resulting in the deterioration of their physical and mental state. In some cases, management personnel even mistake the behavior of persons with mental disorders as disobedience and thereby subject them to solitary confinement. These acts clearly are not in conformity with Articles 14 and 15 of the CRPD and Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman 63 The Control Yuan investigation report approved on December 11, 2019. 53

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