Korea Correctional Service

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Korea Correctional Service
교정본부
Agency overview
Formed1948; 77 years ago (1948)
Jurisdiction
Gyeonggi
Agency executive
  • Shin Yong-hae, Commissioner
Parent agencyMinistry of Justice
Websitecorrections.go.kr

The Korea Correctional Service (Korean: 교정본부; 矯正本部) is an agency of the Ministry of Justice of South Korea responsible for correctional services.

The Korea Correctional Service is headquartered in Building 1 of the Government Complex-Gwacheon in

Seoul metropolitan area.[1]

History

The Korea Correctional Service was founded on 17 July 1948, a month before the formal inauguration of South Korea, and was reorganized into its current form in 2007.

In 2002, the agency introduced its

foundational myth.[1]

Demographics

As of 2007, there were 2,431 women incarcerated in the South Korean prison system, making up 5.3% of all of the prison inmates; Bitna Kim, Jurg Gerber, and Yeonghee Kim of Sam Houston State University wrote that therefore "these incarcerated women have not been a matter of much popular or scholarly concern and interest in South Korea."[2]

Female prisoners are held in 10 detention centers, one long-term prison for women, one juvenile correctional center, for correctional center branches, and a

antisocial risk-taking behavior. The criteria for prosocial risk-taking behavior from females involved career paths such as doctors and police, while antisocial risk-taking included females involved in committing crimes. These researchers hypothesized that both prosocial and antisocial risk-taking groups would have been raised in less patriarchal families and were more likely to challenge gender roles, reject patriarchal beliefs, and have a high preference for engaging in risk-taking behavior. The results of their study found that females a part of the antisocial group were more likely to be raised in less patriarchal families, while prosocial females were more likely to be raised in patriarchal families. However, other studies show weak support for power-control theory.[3]

As of 2005, prisoners who are members of the

hard labor that is mandatory for South Korean prisoners.[4]

Centers

There are 11 pre-trial detention centers and 37 correctional centers; the latter includes one

women's prison, one juvenile institution, one private prison, two centers for vocational training, and one open prison.[5]

Pre-trial detention centers:

  • Seoul Detention Center (Uiwang, Gyeonggi Province) - Opened in July 1967, it was the first pretrial detention center in South Korea. The Seoul Detention Center housed former President Park Geun-hye following her arrest in 2017. An execution chamber is located in the center, although no executions have been carried out in South Korea since the late 1990s.
  • Chungju Detention Center
  • Daegu Detention Center - a high-rise building
  • Incheon Detention Center - a high-rise building
  • Suwon Detention Center - a high-rise building
  • Ulsan Detention Center - a high-rise building

Correctional centers:

  • Cheongju Women's Correctional Institution (청주여자교도소) - the only long-term prison for women in South Korea; includes female vocational training[6]
  • Daegu Correctional Institution - includes female vocational training[6]
  • Hwaseong Correctional Institution
  • Pohang Correctional Institution
  • Somang Correctional Institution - private prison
  • Yeoju Correctional Institution - includes female vocational training[6]
  • Gimcheon Juvenile Correctional Institution

References

  1. ^ a b Home page (Archive). Korea Correctional Service. Retrieved on December 23, 2015. "Building #1, Government Complex-Gwacheon, 47, Gwanmun-ro, Gwacheon-si, Gyeonggi-do, 427-700 Republic of Korea." - Korean address: "[427-700] 경기도 과천시 관문로 47 정부과천청사 5동 법무부 교정본부"
  2. ^ a b Kim, Bitna, Jurg Gerber, and Yeonghee Kim (all Sam Houston State University). "Characteristics of Incarcerated Women in South Korea Who Killed Their Spouses: A Feminist and Age-Graded Theory of Informal Social Control Analysis" (Archive). The Southwest Journal of Criminal Justice. Volume 4, No. 1, 2007, p. 39-57. Cited: p. 39.
  3. ^ Kim, B., Gerber, J., Henderson, C., & Kim, Y. (2012). Applicability of General Power-Control Theory to Prosocial and Antisocial Risk-Taking Behaviors Among Women in South Korea. Prison Journal, 92(1), 125-150. doi:10.1177/0032885511429275
  4. ^ Robson, Seth. "For U.S. inmates in S. Korean prison, time feels like it's standing still" (Archive). Stars and Stripes. March 13, 2005. Retrieved on February 28, 2016.
  5. ^ "Organization of local Correctional Institutions." Korea Correctional Service. Retrieved on February 28, 2016.
  6. ^ a b c "Vocational Training." Korea Correctional Service. Retrieved on February 28, 2016.

Further reading

  • Kim, Y-H., Park, K-B., & Lee, J-H. (2004). "The characteristics of female criminals, reasons of crime and possibilities of rehabilitation: Practical implications of therapeutic jurisprudence from in-depth interview research. Seoul: Ministry of Justice. Discusses women incarcerated in South Korean prisons.
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