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13.5% in the UK, and 12.5% in France, and its average hospitalization period of 247
days is longer than that of other nations, e.g., 52 days in the UK, 35.7 days in France,
and 26.9 days in Germany (para.150-151).
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What measures are being prepared in order to prevent the abuse or misuse of
involuntary hospitalization system for mentally-ill people?
Article 10
14. Correspondence Censorship
The Government states in the report that it decided not to censor correspondences in
principle (para. 175).
However, Article 43 of the Act on the Execution of Criminal Penalties and the
Treatment of Inmates includes escape clauses that allow censorship when there are
concerns about undermining the inmates’ reform or their sound return to society,
concerns about harming safety and order, or information conflicting with criminal
statute. Such grounds are mostly abstract, having the potential to invite arbitrary
decisions by prison officers. The NHRCK, thus, recommended the Minister of Justice
in 2010 to amend the Act in a bid to specifically state the grounds of censoring
convicts’ correspondences and disapproving their reception and transmission; to
amend the regulations; to fully guarantee the human rights of convicts; and to make
and distribute related manuals and use them for education.
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