[사회]Two additional Seoul detention centers confirmed…Promote full inspection of correctional facilities in the metropolitan area

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Even in correctional facilities, which are dense facilities such as detention centers, the number of corona19 confirmed continues to increase.

An additional confirmed person came from the Seoul detention center in Uiwang, Gyeonggi-do, where a recently released man was confirmed.

The Ministry of Justice is planning to carry out a thorough inspection on the entire correctional facility in the metropolitan area.

Connect with reporters. Reporter Han Dong-oh!

People who were in close contact with the recently released Seoul detention center were examined yesterday. Two of them were confirmed?

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Yes, it is.

Yesterday morning, as a result of testing 86 people, including prison guards and prisoners who were in close contact with the confirmed case, two prisoners were tested positive.

Three of them have yet to find test results, and all other personnel have been tested negative.

A man who was released on the 19th was confirmed for Corona 19 on the day of release, and close contacts were examined.

The Ministry of Justice explained that it is planning to conduct a full inspection of the entire Seoul detention center staff and prisoners today as there are confirmed cases among contacts.

Former President Park Geun-hye, Pastor Kwang-Hoon Jeon, and Jae-Hyun Kim, CEO of Optimus Asset Management, are housed in the Seoul Detention Center, and they will also be examined.

Yesterday, the Seoul detention center asked the Seoul Central District Court to postpone the trial schedule for detainees, etc., until the results of the inspection of contacts in the Seoul Central District Court were confirmed.

First, in the eastern detention center in Seoul where the group infection occurred, one additional detention center employee was tested positive, and the cumulative number of confirmed cases was 217 until yesterday.

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Prior to the Seoul detention center, there were more than 200 confirmed cases in the eastern detention center in Seoul.

When the situation worsens, the Ministry of Justice conducts a thorough inspection of the entire metropolitan correction facility?

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Yes, the Ministry of Justice has announced that it will conduct a full inspection of prisoners in correctional facilities in the metropolitan area after consultation with the quarantine authorities.

There are 9 correctional facilities in the metropolitan area.

This time, there is a Seoul detention center in which three people, including prisoners and prisoners, were confirmed, and an eastern detention center in Seoul, where 200 people were infected.

The Seoul Southern Prison and Seoul Southern Detention Center, Anyang Prison and Suwon Detention Center, Incheon Detention Center, Uijeongbu Prison and Hwaseong Vocational Training Prison are also scheduled to be inspected.

The eastern detention center in Seoul, which has spread due to the outbreak of infection, has already undergone a thorough examination, but is scheduled to do another thorough examination tomorrow for an accurate examination.

The Ministry of Justice announced that it will organize a special inspection team to conduct on-site inspections on the overall situation of COVID-19 quarantine at correctional facilities nationwide starting today.

In addition, he explained that he will do its best to block the spread of Corona 19 in correctional facilities in strict recognition of the current emergency situation and in close cooperation with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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