Regulations Governing Investigation of Prisoner’s Information Article 6

The prisoner investigations can be categorized into admission investigation, in-prison review and post imprisonment investigation.Admission investigation shall be conducted by direct investigation method, and shall be completed within 20 days after the prisoner is admitted into a Prison. The period of indirect investigation and psychological test shall not exceed two months. The investigation may be in a summary form if the prisoner’s sentence is less than one year.In-prison review shall be conducted every two years after the admission of the prisoner, which may be conducted at any time whenever found necessary.Post imprisonment investigation shall be conducted three months before release or before the request of release on parole is submitted. The review investigation may be conducted again before the release whenever found necessary.The supervisory authority shall establish the forms of investigations set forth in the preceding four paragraphs.