Emergency rehabilitation aid is a measure devised for inmates released on completion of their sentence, offenders given suspension of execution of the sentence without probationary supervision, and defendants granted suspension of prosecution, who have thus been freed from physical constraint in connection with criminal justice procedures, but who are (1) unable to receive support from their families or partners, or aid from public welfare or other institutions, or (2) deemed impossible to rehabilitate with this support or aid alone. Emergency aid is given by probation offices, or entrusted to halfway houses, upon application from the person in question, within a range not exceeding 6 months from the date of discharge from physical constraint. Table II-27 shows the number of persons for whom aid measures were taken in 1999.

Table II-27 Number of persons given emergency rehabilitation aid (1999)