The NHRCK recommended that a welfare facility for vagrants in Seogwipo, Jeju take necessary measures to remove iron-barred doors from its ‘recovery rooms.’
A complainant, identified as Mr. C, stated in his complaint filed on March 3, “I was taken into an iron barred-solitary room only because I was drunk.”
The NHRCK concluded that having iron-barred ‘recovery rooms’ in welfare facilities is in violation of the principle of human dignity under Art.10 of the Constitution. Although isolating the complainant for other inmates’ right to sleep does not directly violate human rights, the iron-barred doors of the ‘recovery room’ remind people of prison cells and having these rooms does not comply with the Social Welfare Act.
