Community service project「Good-Neighborliness in Dafa Industrial Park」

• Publication Date： 2014-08-18
• Last updated：2019-01-05
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Community service project「Good-Neighborliness in Dafa Industrial Park」 　　Kaohsiung District Prosecutors office(“KDPO” thereafter) cooperated with Kaohsiung Prison, Agency of Corrections, Ministry of Justice(“KPAOC” thereafter) to promote the community service project of “Good-Neighborliness in Dafa Industrial Park“. This project purpose is to provide a safe and artistic public environment to raise the citizen’s life quality and prettify the community. The grand opening for the project was hold at the north door of Dafa industrial park on July 21th 2014.Not only the KDPO chief prosecutor Tsai Jui-Tsung(蔡瑞宗) attended the opening in person, Executive Yuan Official Yang Chiu-Hsing(楊秋興)、Legislator Lin Tai-Hua(林岱樺)、 Director of Agency of Corrections Wu Sen-Chang(吳憲璋) and the head of KPAOC Chen Chih-Tsung（陳世宗） were also invited to attend. In this two-year term Good-Neighborliness project, KPAOC will prescribe the offenders who be sentenced to community service (according to Article 41 of Criminal Code of the Republic of China) once a week to clean up and beautify the green area in Dafa industrial park and other public space, which the measure of area is around 14,113 ㎡. Mr.Shih, who was convicted of sexual offense, applied to commute his sentence from short-term imprisonment to community service. In the beginning, he felt worried and nervous, but now he finished his work placidly every day. From the guidance and supervision of KPAOC officers, Mr.Shih started learning how to grow plants. While looking at the plants thriving and flourishing under the sun light, he felt strongly regretful over his offense. He decided to make a fresh start by this regular and stable lifestyle. 　 “This project let the offenders contribute themselves to the society as their punishment. The offenders can see the environment prettified in their effort. This is good for building offenders’ confident and rehabilitation. Hope the society can have more tolerances and supports to these minor crime offenders, also the offenders can devote themselves to more visible social services in future and help more people.”Chief prosecutor Tsai Jui-Tsung said.