Japanese Prisons Promoting Dialogue with Citizens
Tokyo, Aug. 31 (Jiji Press)--Japanese prisons are engaging with citizens through an "interactive facility visit" program that allows visitors and prison officers to exchange views. The initiative follows the integration of the criminal punishment of imprisonment with mandatory labor into imprisonment without labor under the revised Penal Code, which took effect in June 2025. The unificat...
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