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KMID : 1142920180020010083
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Public Health Affairs
2018 Volume.2 No. 1 p.83 ~ p.102
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Ideals and realities of restorative correction: Focusing on mental health, aging, and communicable disease of prisoners
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Choi Se-Jin
Yi Eo-Jin
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Abstract
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Purpose: Prisoners’ health has a significant impact on public health, since they will be back to their community one day. However, present correctional health of Korea has limitations in managing health of inmates while they are incarcerated and after the release. Through this review, we would like to first, encapsulate status quo of the correctional health and second, introduce the concept of restorative justice to seek the ways to improve correctional health especially by more effectively facilitating prisoners’ integration to society.
Methods: We reviewed papers published both in Korean and English. Due to limited information, we also referred to news and data from the Congress.
Results: High prevalence of mental disease among prisoners was notable. Recent efforts of building mental health center in prisons and psychiatric consulting programs are noticeable. Programs adapted from restorative justice, such as Victim-Offender Mediation, might accelerate these endeavors. Prison is becoming older, and older means sicker. Lack of community supports on seniors are pushing them to repeat crimes. In Korea, there has been no specialized programs to improve health of aged inmates. Attentive care and community involvement with these seniors during incarceration may reduce the burden of community. Prison is like a reservoir of communicable disease. Collaborated efforts of correctional and community health systems to stop tuberculosis and viral hepatitis will be needed.
Conclusions: Applying the concepts of restorative justice to correctional health could effectively improve both prisoners’ and public health.
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KEYWORD
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Prisoners, Health disparities, Mental health, Aging, Communicable disease
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