Topic: Prison Reform
Country: Japan
Delegate Name: Evan Eastman
School: Saginaw Arts and Sciences Academy
Topic page: background guide and all position papers All Japan position papers GLIMUN 2008 committees
For years, the global community has been concerned with ensuring ethical and humane treatment of prisoners around the world. Concerns over the treatment of prisoners have arisen in the past few decades, encouraging the United Nations to analyze prison systems. Unethical and inhumane treatment of prisoners has occurred in many prisons spreading across dozens of nations: Abu Ghraib and Pul-i-Charkhi are just two of the most well-publicized instances of the inhumane treatment of prisoners. These notorious prisons have used extremely inhumane means to degrade, humiliate, and treat prisoners, not with the respect and dignity due to a human being, but with animosity and abasement.
For these reasons, the country of Japan calls for the United Nations to take action in reforming penal systems around the globe in order to not only protect our nations from further inhumane treatment issues, but to protect our culture and reduce the numbers of criminals globally. This is the only way to truly reform prisons; the best way to reform prisons is to address the growing problems of criminal activity and to stop this epidemic from invading the rest of the world. The peaceful nation of Japan is in full support of a global prison reform and will gladly aid any nation in their journey to prison reform and a more humane and ethical penal system. We hope that this committee finds compromises that encourage the reform of penal systems throughout the world and ensure that all people are treated with respect.
Respectfully,
Japan
