20 years? Jiang Ge's mom was furious: you simply release the murderer on the spot!
In the afternoon of December 20, 2017, the judge of the Tokyo District Court in Japan made a first instance decision on the case of the murder of Chinese student Jiang Ge, sentencing the defendant Chen Shifeng to 20 years in prison. So according to Japanese law, can Chen Shifeng get parole to get out of prison early?
According to Japan's Ministry of Justice, nearly 60 percent of those sentenced to prison terms are eligible for parole, and foreign nationals who are released on parole are immediately repatriated to their home countries and barred from re-entering Japanese territory. The international community does not approve of double punishment, so it is unlikely that Chen Shifeng will be prosecuted again in China after serving his sentence in Japan. But after many years, Chen Shifeng may not be able to adapt to a fast-moving society.
The case is almost over, and Chen Shifeng will spend "20 years" in prison in Japan.
What are the prison conditions for Chen Shifeng, who was sentenced in Japan?
There are three types of detention centers in Japan: detention centers, juvenile prisons and jails. Detention centers are similar to those in China, and are mainly used to detain criminal suspects who have not yet been sentenced. Juvenile prisons, on the other hand, are for juvenile offenders. Since Chen Shifeng (born in 1991) is no longer a minor, he will be held in an ordinary prison.
According to Japan's Ministry of Justice: as of April 2010, there are 62 prisons, 7 juvenile prisons, 8 detention centers, 8 branch prisons, and 103 branch detention centers throughout Japan***. Since prisons are spread throughout the country, they are managed mainly by dividing them into regions, such as the Tokyo District and the Sapporo District. Therefore, it is expected that the defendants will be held in a prison in the Tokyo Administrative District, but it is hard to say exactly which prison in the Tokyo Administrative District, and it is possible that they will be held in one of the prisons outside the Tokyo metropolitan area.
Though Chen Shifeng is a foreigner in Japan, he will be treated in accordance with Japan's Treatment Act, which has been in effect since 2006, and which divides six types of treatment by the level of knowledge and ability to lead a life of the person serving the sentence, such as "need for vocational training," "need for life guidance," and so on. ", and so on. Earlier, a media report said defendant Chen Shifeng was able to make a statement in fluent Japanese when he appeared in court on the 11th, so he should not be detained with foreign criminals who are completely ignorant of Japanese.
Journalist Li Miao publicized the situation in Japanese prisons, showing photos of prisons released by Japan's Ministry of Justice, with bathrooms, gymnasiums, libraries, etc., and incarcerated inmates working an average of more than six hours a day, exercising for 30 minutes, and eating three meals a day, with about 2.5 hours of personal time between returning to the cell after dinner, and before going to bed.
Japanese prisons. Serving three meals a day, there are calorie regulations, the main food calories: 1,100-1,700 calories, side dishes calories: 900-1,130 calories. Figure is a single cell, multi-person cell. Bathroom, gymnasium, library, medical equipment in prison (Source: Ministry of Justice of Japan)
Netizen comment:
Is it true that people living in Japanese prisons are treated favorably as above?
Japan's Ministry of Justice released a relevant statistic in 2013, which showed that in that year, 1,324 cases of slander and libel against inmates and 2,979 cases of violence against inmates (or between inmates) occurred in prisons across the country.
Wang Liange, a Chinese man serving a prison sentence in Japan, was brutally beaten by five inmates after accusing them of failing to fulfill their duties on time. Wang Liange screamed in pain, but the group of immigration officers continued their violence. The suspect suffered great shame and pain.
Yuki Goto, the younger brother of Japanese artist Maki Goto, was released from prison in 2012 after being sentenced in 2007 to five years and six months in prison for robbery and assault. In his later autobiography, Yuki Goto recalled his dark life in prison, saying that he was targeted by his older brother as soon as he was incarcerated because he had worked as an entertainer, and that his older brother, who lived in the same house, threatened to "fuck him" and was violent, forcing him to swallow worms, and even to eat semen-drenched white rice.
The Japanese gossip magazine Nikkan Spa! According to the magazine, due to the lack of recreational programs in prisons, inmates often bully each other for fun, such as making an inmate drink 10 liters of water at a time, forcing an inmate to eat soap in order to make him poop green, or punishing an inmate by not allowing him to eat or sleep.
The magazine also revealed that there is a hierarchy in the prison, with members of violent groups at the top of the pyramid, while celebrities, sex offenders, and femicides are at the bottom and are often the targets of bullying.
Of course, in addition to bullying among inmates inside the prison, prison guards often verbally abuse or beat inmates as well. For example, the Yomiuri Shimbun reported on April 17, 2009, that the former deputy director of Yamagata Prefectural Prison had repeatedly insulted an inmate as a "punk"; and the Fukui Shimbun reported on October 6, 2012, that an employee at Kofu Prison had repeatedly insulted an inmate as a "begging asshole". "
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Chen Shifeng was not sentenced to death for his crimes, but the next 20 years will never be easy.
Heh.