Input 2021.01.04 21:25
Later, Vice Minister Lee visited the Suwon Detention Center, a high-rise building-type correctional facility such as the Dongbu Detention Center, to check the quarantine situation. As the risk of spreading infectious diseases is higher than that of other correctional facilities, it is in order to urge all employees to do their best. Vice Minister Lee plans to visit the eastern detention center every day until the corona outbreak subsides to check the status of the response to the corona outbreak.
Earlier, Minister of Justice Chu Mi-ae also visited Incheon detention center and Suwon detention center on the 31st of last month to check the situation of corona response.
According to the Ministry of Justice on that day, the number of corona confirmed persons in correctional facilities nationwide was counted to 1,116, an increase of 8 from the previous day. On the 2nd, in the 5th thorough investigation conducted on Dongbu detention center inmates, 6 out of the 7 detainees were additionally confirmed, and one Jeju prison employee was also confirmed. One person who was confirmed as confirmed by an external agency after being released on the 26th of last month was also reflected in the statistics.
Currently, 988 prisoners have been quarantined after being confirmed coronavirus. By institution, there were 609 people in the Seoul East Detention Center, 342 people in North Gyeongsang Province 2 prison, 19 people in Gwangju Prison, 13 people in Seoul Southern Prison, 4 people in Gangwon North Prison, and 1 person in Seoul Detention Center.