일본의 PFI교도소의 현황

Abstract

There are two types of PFI prisons. The first is a prison which entrusts thedesign, the building, and full maintenance and administration with private sectorssuch as Anglo-American private prisons. Another is a prison which is designed andbuilt in the center by a private sector. They administer them with proprietaryprivileges of the center, and then, they hand them over to the government aftercompleting a certain business period like the continental private prisons. JapanesePFI prisons are the latter with co-administration of public officials and privatesectorsThe writer believes that there are mainly three circumstances such as thecountermeasure to the prison overcrowding, regulatory reform, and penal reform,being the reason for the PFI prisons being introduced into our country. And the writer considers that the development of Japanese PFI prisons isdivided into five stages. The first stage is the PFI prisons which entrusts thedesign, the building, and a part of the maintenance and the administration withprivate sectors such as Mine Rehabilitation Program Center and Shimane-AsahiRehabilitation Program Center. The second stage is the PFI prisons in which non-compulsory services isentrusted to these institutions that the government designed and built such asKitsuregawa Rehabilitation Program Center and Harima Rehabilitation ProgramCenter. The third stage is the existence of prisons such as the Kurobane PrisonShizuoka Prison, and Kasamatsu Female Prison adopt a way to entrust a part ofadministration. The fourth stage is the PFI prisons adopting methods to entrust a part ofgeneral affairs in the Fuchu Prison and Tachikawa Detention Center, and methodsto entrust a partial food supply like the Osaka Detention Center, Iwakuni FemalePrison, and Kochi Prison. The privatization of catering is the characteristic of thisstage. The fifth stage is the International Synthetic Center of judicial Affairs which isexpected to complete in 2017. The government authority will entrust part of theadministration and maintenance to private sectors utilizing the PFI method. Thegovernment expects that administrative efficiency, accommodation related to prisonservices with the high quality, and substantiality of correction medical treatmentwill be achieved. The thoroughness of allotment between the State and private sector is a key tothe task of prison PFI business. And it is necessary to preserve the fairness andobjectivity of transacting services, and to preserve the supervision and/or theeffective monitoring system of the government.