한국법무보호복지공단의 현황과 개혁방안

Abstract

The year 2021 marks 111 years since the Korea Rehabilitation Agency(hereinafter referred to as Agency) established a relief center in Incheon in 1910 and began rehabilitation protection activities for the first time. It is time for new momentum for innovation, such as revitalization of the organization and morale, through the evaluation of rehabilitation performances of the Agency. The activities of the public corporation, or rehabilitation protection activities, are intended to support the reentry of prisoners and play an important role in providing the ultimate social safety net for those released from prison. However, the turn-over rate of the Agency's employees within three years is 35.2 percent for regular workers and 69.5 percent for non-regular workers. The morale of the Agency staff is very low even though they play a very important role in both the subjects and society. In this study, I analyzed the reasons why the workers of the Agency are less energetic and proposed ways to overcome them. First, the problem of the status of the Agency can be found in integration with probation in 1995. If probation is a secure disposal as a powerful administrative disposition, rehabilitation protection is a voluntary welfare treatment, which can be said to be the beginning of the problem. As a result of the integration, rehabilitation protection has become an incidental task to support probation. The following is a simple name change made in 2005. At that time, the Agency’s name was renamed as the Korea Rehabilitation Agency. But the Agency’s mission was not changed or expanded, only to take off the reminiscent of a negative image. As a result, the corporation believes that despite the name change, it has suffered confusion in its identity while continuing its rehabilitation work in the past. To overcome this, new law is needed to establish independence of "renewal protection," which is currently incorporated into the "Rehabilitation and Protection Act," in order to break away from the negative image of rehabilitation and establish itself as "legal protection welfare." Next, the task area of the public corporation shall be paradigm-changed from the current support of "dispatcher" to "legal protection welfare" that "supports releaseees and victims of crime together" and seek a reorganization of the position to revitalize it. In addition, various attempts are needed to meet various needs of the legal protection welfare target (release and crime victims), such as a social impact bond (SIB), which can attract participation in the private sector and increase their autonomous performance.