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.
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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
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The Control Yuan investigation report approved on December 11, 2019.
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