Regulations Governing the Transfer of Prisoners Article 2

The terms used in these Regulations are defined as follows:1. Prison: Referring to any prison under the Agency of Corrections, Ministry of Justice, including any branch or female unit set up by the prison.2. Severely exceeding the approved capacity: Referring to the condition where the actual number of prisoners in a prison exceeds the approved capacity by at least twenty percent;3. Flexibly adjusting transfer operations: Referring to the conduct of the supervisory authority transferring prisoners from prisons severely exceeding approved prison capacity to other prisons as an effort to reduce the overcrowding conditions;4. Family members: Referring to persons who cohabit with a prisoner for the purpose of living together on a permanent basis in accordance with Articles 1122 and 1123 of the Civil Code.5. Nearest relatives: Referring to the prisoner’s spouse, lineal family, non-lineal family within 3 degrees of kinship, or marital family within 2 degrees of kinship.