Justice and its subordinated agencies shoudl proactively seek improvement, and work with the Ministry of Health and Welfare to improve the medical rights of those inmates in the correctional institutions of Taiwan. 79. Recently, the Agency of Corrections has worked with the competent health authorities to amend laws to incorporate prisoners into the national health insurance program, establish relevant regulations governing prisoners’ medical care, and add the requirement that prison/detention center clinics should satisfy the institution’s medical care needs. It will also amend the Reference Principles for Determination of Emergency Medical Service Available to Inmates. However, some correctional institutions still fail to offer outpatient services such as dentistry, dermatology, and infectious disease centers, or the outpatient services offered by them lack the specialties or volume capacity to meet the needs of the inmate patients. There are also problems of contracted hospitals not having enough secure wards for prisoners, some medical centers needing to set up guarded zones, and even some prisoners found to be seeking outpatient services too frequently. After investigation and subsequent follow-up by the Control Yuan, the Ministry of Justice promulgated the Standards for the Establishment of Guarded Wards of Entities Subsidiary to the Agency of Corrections in August 2019, a regulation which shall serve as the legal ground for the establishment of secure wards by the Ministry of Health and Welfare. Aging of Prisoners 80. The percentage of prisoners in Taiwan over 65 years old has increased from 1% in 2009 to 2.8% in 2019, i.e. an average annual increase of 11.2%, which is even 8.5 times faster than the increase in Japan. This shows a sharp increase in the aging of inmates in correctional institutions in Taiwan. The Ministry of Justice should direct its subsidiary agencies to prepare the necessary policies and facilities for senior medical care, education and everyday living as early as possible, with professional assistance provided by the Ministry of Health and Welfare. Commutation of Sentence, Parole and Term Mitigation 81. Concerning whether decrease of a sentence may apply in the circumstances where part of several consecutive sentences has already been served while the others are still running, the Judicial Yuan and Ministry of Justice reached different opinions based on the 2007 Criminal Commutation Act. Addressing one such application, the Prosecutor General of the Supreme Prosecutors Office filed an extraordinary appeal with the Supreme Court (under 2019 FeiShang-Zi No. 236). However, the Supreme Court rendered its judgment, under 2020 Tai-Fei-Zi No. 69, holding that according to the resolution made by the 4th meeting of its Criminal Division in 2008, the ruling without question 37