Strengthening the quality and capacity
of correctional officers in Vietnam
Authors:
Vietnam Trade and industry review
: 25 : 78-83
Publishing year: 11/2021
Human is the most important factor which decides the quality of all activities. Correctional
officers are the main force to enforce imprisonment and they plays an important role in the
enforcement of legal provisions on ensuring human rights during the imprisonment enforcement.
Correctional officers are responsible for preventing prisoners human rights violations. Improving
the capacity, expertise, professionalism and sense of responsibility of the corectional officers is
one of the important solutions to ensure human rights of prisoners during the imprisonment
enforcement. This paper presents legal provisions and an overview about the orgranization of
correctional officers. Based on this paper’s findings, some recommendations are proposed to
improve the quality, capacity and professionalism of correctional officersin Vietnam.
human rights, prisoner, enforcement of imprisonment