needs of juvenile detention houses. It not only failed to supplement the manpower dedicated to juvenile detention houses, but also closed multiple independently-established juvenile detention houses. Taipei Juvenile Detention House and Tainan Juvenile Detention House are the only two dedicated facilities in the country now. The other juvenile detention houses share office and space with detention centers, prisons, and drug rehabilitation treatment centers that hold adult prisoners, and thus lose their independent spaces and professional manpower. The overall funding allotted to juvenile detention houses has been in decline from 2014 to 2017, and now represents less than 2% of the total budget allocated to correctional institutions. The overall environment in a juvenile detention house is now clearly less than ideal for the purpose of assessing a juvenile’s physical and mental condition, much less correcting it. It is very difficult to help juvenile delinquents return to school and society. Upon investigation and attention by the Control Yuan, the Ministry of Justice has planned to contract external professionals, including 147 clinical psychologists and 152 professional social workers and staff, in total, from 2019 to 2022, and has prioritized the assignment of these professionals to juvenile correctional institutions. 52. Currently, 16 juvenile detention houses share office and space with adult detention centers and abuser treatment centers throughout the country. While most of these juvenile detention houses have done their best to separate juvenile and adult inmates, due to the limited available space and manpower, the environment in which juveniles are detained are still about the same as that of the adults. The rooms confining juvenile inmates are usually separated using multiple steel fences at the end of adult prison rooms, or are rooms usually used for adult prisoners for isolation, and thus the separation becomes more of a formality. Some juvenile inmates were even found to have been beaten by adult prisoners or prison guards. Furthermore, as some juvenile detention houses only detain a small number of young women, there is a lack of adequate facilities and educational resources for them. Under such conditions, the juveniles are likely to self-condemn or be influenced by bad habits. The Agency of Corrections should improve on this situation promptly. The Judicial Yuan should also request its juvenile courts (or authorities) to monitor such improvements. 53. The juvenile courts and juvenile detention houses should improve their control over knowledge of, and communication mechanisms regarding, juvenile inmates’ physical and mental condition. Furthermore, certain courts exercise supervision merely as a formality. Kaohsiung Juvenile and Family Court failed to verify the correctional institution’s practices regarding transfer of juveniles to adult cells; nor did they report the same to the Juvenile and Family Department of the Judicial Yuan. It also did not put any mention of this on the agenda for coordination meetings of the government organs. Most of the 26