군 영창제도의 문제점과 개선방안

Abstract

With respect to the guardhouse disposition which has been regulated from the time of enactment of the 「Military Personnel Management Act」(No. 1006 of the Law) on January 20, 1962, many problems have been pointed out in terms of improvement of human rights in the armed forces and supplementation work for the aforementioned is being made. First of all, through the revision of the 「Military Personnel Management Act」on April 28, 2006, specification of causes for disciplinary action on servicepersons that were comprehensively regulated, enhancement of guardhouse disposition for prevention of abuse of guardhouse disposition, introduction of military judicial officer system in charge of human rights for examining legality of guardhouse disposition의legality, introduction of notice system for guardhouse disposition for relatives of prisoners and granting force for suspension of execution at the time of appealing against guardhouse disposition have been supplemented. And for the purpose of regulating matters necessary for disciplinary action on servicepersons in accordance with regulations from Article 56 through 61 of the「Military Personnel Management Act」, the 「Ordinance on the Disciplinary Action against Servicepersons」has been enacted and enforced from August 22, 2007, and Namok of Item 1 of Article 2 of the 「Enforcement Regulations of the Ordinance on the Disciplinary Action against Servicepersons」which was enacted on November 22, 2007 is concretely regulating detailed standards for weighing of disciplinary action against soldiers in its annex. And the 「Instructions on the Standards for Guardhouse Execution and Treatment of Prisoners in Guardhouse」has also been enacted and executed from February 14, 2011 to guarantee legality of guardhouse disposition and human rights of prisoners in the execution process of guardhouse by regulating standards and procedure of treatment for prisoners. Notwithstanding such improvement and efforts, however, problems of guardhouse disposition have continued to be raised and examples include violation of warrant requirement which is guaranteed in the Constitution in the terms of detaining without a warrant from a judge, violation of the principle of prohibition on cumulative penalties in the way that the period of detention in a guardhouse is not included in the term of military service, violation of the principle of statutory reservation in the way that installation of guardhouse is not based on the law and violation of the principle of proportionality in terms of detaining prisoners in a same place with convicts as well as pretrial detainees providing inferior treatment. Based on such a discussible situation, this manuscript analyzes the reality focusing on the present conditions and procedures of military guardhouse disposition, and aims to analyze problems focusing on the violation of warrant requirement, violation of due process and violation of equality based on the foregoing, and will finish discussion proposing lightning abolition of guardhouse disposition and suggesting a plan for diversification of disciplinary actions.