Juridical persons for offenders rehabilitation services are nongovernmental organizations that undertake rehabilitation services to offenders and are established under license from the Minister of Justice in line with the Law for Offenders Rehabilitation Services. Offenders rehabilitation services include: (1)continuous aid services for establishing halfway houses and providing offenders with accommodation and necessary aid; (2)temporary aid services for, without providing accommodation, preparing places of next abode, supplying or lending money or goods, and providing life counseling;and (3)liaison and assistance services for undertaking liaison and assistance for continuous aid services, temporary aid services, and other services to assist the rehabilitation of offenders. At present, there are no juridical persons for offenders rehabilitation services that are engaged only in temporary aid services. Most of those engaged in liaison and assistance services also undertake temporary aid services. Thus, juridical persons for offenders rehabilitation services are broadly divided into those engaged in continuous aid services and those engaged in liaison and assistance services.
  As of April 1, 2001, there were 164 juridical persons for offenders rehabilitation services, with one more organization engaged in offenders rehabilitation services under license from the Minister of Justice (liaison and assistance service), which was not included in the juridical persons for offenders rehabilitation services.