Translator Reviews ( Japanese → English )
Rating: 60 / Native Japanese / 0 Reviews / 15 Jan 2012 at 09:38
限られた数の刑務官で増える受刑者を監視することは難しくなる。それでいて予算の削減圧力も強い。法務省も手を打っている。収容率は2000年代半ばには110％を超えていたが、近年では各刑務所における収容棟の増築や新設PFI 刑務所(民営刑務所)の運営、受刑者総数の減少に伴い収容率は改善、100％を切るに至っている。しかしこれはあくまで平均である。刑期が長い服役囚や女子受刑者の施設は過剰収容の状態が継続している。さらに広島刑務所は収容分類級が幅広く、刑務官にも多様な人材が必要とされる
It is not an easy task observing ever-increasing inmates with a limited number of prison guards. Additionally, there is a strong pressure of budgetary cutback. The Ministry of Justice has already taken a measure. The housing rate of inmates had hit 110% in the middle of year 2000, but it has now been reduced to less than 100% after some extensions of inmates' accomodation buildings at all prisons, operation of newly built PFI prisons (private prisons), and also the improvement in the housing rate due to the decrease in total number of inmates in recent years. However, this is just an average standard. Facilities for convicts who are serving long-term sentences and female inmates are continually having an overcrowding issue. Additionally, the Hiroshima Penitentiary is known to have a wide range of housing ranks. This means they require many different types of prison guard resources.