How do inmates request home visit to attend the funeral of a relative?

1. Condition: In the event of the death of an inmate’s grandparent, parent, parent of spouse, spouse, child, or sibling, the inmate may, with approval from senior officials of the correctional facility, go home for a visit under escort and then return to the facility within 24 hours. The duration of the visit will be counted as time served.
2. Required documents: When an inmate has the need to request to attend funeral, the inmate or their relatives should submit an application together with the following documents to a contact designated by the correctional facility:
   1. Death certificate (or certificate of household deregistration).
   2. Obituary notice or other documents that suffice to show the date and place of the funeral.
   3. Household registration or other relevant documents (e.g. household registry or household registration transcript) that suffice to show the relationship between inmate and the deceased.
3. Application period: From the date the deceased passed away to two days before the scheduled funeral service (burial).
4. If the inmate has filled out a “Consent Form for Application of Electronic Household Registration Transcript” at the correctional facility, agreeing that the facility can print out his or her e-household registration transcript, inmate’s relative need not submit the inmate’s household registration documents.

How do inmates request home visit to visit a gravely ill relative?

1. Condition: In the event an inmate’s grandparent, parent, parent of spouse, spouse, child, or sibling is in a life-threatening situation, the inmate may, with approval from the Agency of Corrections that is applied through the correctional facility, go home for a visit under escort and then return to the facility within 24 hours. The duration of the visit will be counted as time served.
2. Required documents: When an inmate need to go home and visit a critically ill relative, the inmate or their relatives should submit an application together with the following documents to a designated contact by the correctional facility:
   1. A certificate of diagnosis issued by a medical institution.
   2. Medical crisis notice issued by a medical institution in the past 3 days or other documents that suffice to show that the visitee is in critically ill condition.
   3. Household registration or other relevant documents (e.g. household registry or household registration transcript) that suffice to show the relationship between inmate and the visitee.
3. Application period: Within 3 days from the time a medical institution issues a medical crisis notice or other documents that suffice to show that the visitee’s life is in danger.
4. If the inmate has filled out a “Consent Form for Application of Electronic Household Registration Transcript” at the correctional facility, agreeing that the facility can print out his or her e-household registration transcript, inmate’s relative need not submit the inmate’s household registration documents.

How do inmates request home visit to visit a relative who sustains serious injury in a disaster?

1. Condition: In the event an inmate’s grandparent, parent, parent of spouse, spouse, child, or sibling sustains serious injury in a disaster defined in Subparagraph 1, Article 2 of the Disaster Prevention and Protection Act (e.g. windstorm, flooding, earthquake, fire, etc.), the inmate may, with approval from the Agency of Corrections that is applied through the correctional facility, go home for a visit under escort and then return to the facility within 24 hours. The duration of the visit will be counted as time served.
2. Required documents: When an inmate need to go home and visit a relative who has sustained a serious injury, the inmate or their relatives should submit an application together with the following documents to a contact designated by the correctional facility:
   1. A certificate of diagnosis issued by a medical institution or other documents that suffice to show that the visitee has sustained serious injury.
   2. A document that suffices to show that the visitee has suffered a disaster.
   3. Household registration or other relevant documents (e.g. household registry or household registration transcript) that suffice to show the relationship between inmate and the visitee.
3. Application period: Within 30 days after the occurrence of disaster.
4. If the inmate has filled out a “Consent Form for Application of Electronic Household Registration Transcript” at the correctional facility, agreeing that the facility can print out his or her e-household registration transcript, inmate’s relative needs not submit the inmate’s household registration documents.

Do documents required for home visit application have to be submitted in hardcopy and delivered to the correctional facility in person?

To facilitate services and improve the efficiency of home visit application, when the relatives of an inmate make a home visit application for the inmate, they can send the required documents by fax, via the Internet or by other appropriate means.

Can inmate’s families or relatives decide the date of inmate’s home visit?

Correctional facilities will arrange the date of an inmate’s home visit under escort as soon as the inmate’s application has been approved. In consideration of the facility’s manpower allocation and for security reasons, the date of inmate’s home visit cannot be decided by their families or relatives. However, for cases of applying for home visit to attend funeral, the facilities will in principle make arrangement for the inmate to return home before the funeral (burial).

Can inmate’s families or relatives be given an advance notice of the date of inmate’s home visit?

For security reasons, inmate’s families or relatives will not be notified of the time and date of inmate’s home visit in advance. However the facilities will notify inmate’s families or relatives before the inmate arrives at the place of visit or funeral.

Will the transportation fee and related charges of home visit be borne by inmates?

Based on the user-pays principle, the transportation fee and related charges incurred during home visit should be borne by inmates. The expenses will be deducted from inmate’s safekeeping account or inmate’s relatives can pay on behalf of the inmate.