Translator Reviews ( Japanese → English )
Rating: 52 / 0 Reviews / 14 Jan 2012 at 20:07
刑務所内の作業は、職業訓練・自営作業・生産作業の三つに分かれる。職業訓練には溶接や電気工事、自動車整備など60種ほどあり、自営作業は掃除や洗濯、掃除など施設維持に必要な作業である。受刑者の80％が従事するのが生産作業である。
山奥や離れ小島に施設を設置しては、刑務作業の取引がままならない。輸送に時間やコストがかかってしまう。
刑務所内の作業は私語厳禁である。土日祝祭日と年末年始を除き、1日8時間（例外的に12時間）週40時間労働で、労働基準法が適用されている。
Work in prison can be divided into three, vocational work, self sustainable work and production work.
Vocational work consists of 60 kinds of work such as welding, electric engineering work and automobile maintenance work.
Self sustainable work is like laundry work and cleaning work to maintain the prison operation.
80% of inmates are engaged with production work.
If prison is located in a mountain or island too far away from town, it is impossible to make a profit through selling their products due to high shipping cost.
Private conversation is prohibited. Except for Saturday, Sunday, holiday and year-end and new year's holidays, inmates must work 8 hours a day (12 hours as an exception ) according to labor standard act.