Research by the Nishinippon Shimbun reveals that five of Kyushu’s 11 prisons and detention centers lack a sufficient number of doctors for the number of inmates. The prisons in Isahaya, Nagasaki Prefecture, and Tosu, Saga Prefecture, have none at all. This has led to increasing numbers of prisoner complaints to bar associations that insufficient or inadequate treatment is an infringement of their rights.
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Shortage of Prison Doctors in Kyushu
- Published: Dec 22, 2011 / Last Updated: Dec 22, 2011
