교정청독립의 필요성

Abstract

The Act of The Penal Execution and Correctional Treatment Act was enacted on 21. dec. 2007. This Act surpasses Korean current Prison Act both in the protection of prisoners rights and the improvement of correctional treatment. The Korean Prison Act has been the 7 revised times for the purpose to strengthen The Basic Rights of Prisoners. As far as many proposed plan is concerned, it seems too idealistic, is hard to achieve in reality. Nowadays, correction business is greatly increasing day by day. Therefore the professional and effectual promotion of correction administrative business needs increasingly. And then the study derives some weak points that the Korean correctional organizations faces and suggests how to improve the current situation. Therefore I suggested some alternative ideas such as developing correctional programs. By a comparative study on the effective operation of the correctional organization, this study attempts to find ways to develop more effective correctional management in Korea, by comparing crime situation, prison conditions, and the structure of correctional agencies among four different countries, the U.S.,China, Japan and Germany. The Korean Corrections-Social Protection system aims at securing the custody of convicts and, rehabilitating criminals. The system is divided into two different organizational structures : the correctional structure and the social protection structure. The former consists of detention centers, prisons, and the recidivists center. The latter consists of probation and parole offices, juvenile training schools,I attempt to research the problems of current organizational structures and their performance and provides recommendations to resolve the issues they have confronted. the correctional component suggests to establish an independent administrative entity called the Central Correctional Agency to give more flexible power and authority to the correctional officers and to make a law concerning to the status and power of correctional officers. Consequently, now theoretically or actually the independence of correction service is not optional but indispensable. This is new vision and development strategies for the future of Korea Correctional Service.