3 Juveniles who are discharged

(1) Status of discharge and courses of discharged juveniles
  The number of juveniles discharged from juvenile training schools (total number of those granted provisional discharge with parole supervision and those granted discharge without parole supervision, excluding transfers between institutions, etc.) in 2007 totaled 4,405, of which 4,344 (98.6%) were granted provisional discharge with parole supervision. Of discharged juveniles 33.3% had been employed, 42.3% were planning to seek employment, 13.5% were planning to go to school, 3.3% were returning to junior high schools, 3.2% were returning to senior high schools, and 3.3% had not decided. The percentage of those who were employed or returning to school to the total number of discharged juveniles increased by 6.3 points from the previous year to 39.8% (Source: Annual Report of Statistics on Correction).
  The average term in juvenile training schools in 2007 was 151 days for general short-term treatment programs, 82 days for special short-term treatment programs, and 396 days for long-term treatment programs (Source: Annual Report of Statistics on Correction).

(2) Places to return
  In 2007 the percentage of the acceptors of discharged juveniles being both the biological parents was 29.2%, a decline by 1.5 points to 29.4% for males and a rise by 3.8 points to 28.3% for females. The percentage of the acceptor being the biological father was 17.8% for males and 10.1% for females, the biological mother 35.7% for males and 40.5% for females, the biological father and adoptive mother 1.6% for males and 1.1% for females, an adoptive father and biological mother 4.9% for males and 7.3% for females, and at halfway houses or volunteer probation officers 2.8% for males and 5.4% for females (Source: Annual Report of Statistics on Correction).

(3) Status of re-admittance, etc.
  Table 4-2-4-11 shows the status of re-admittance of discharged juveniles between 1998 and 2007.
  The percentage of those re-admitted to juvenile training schools within five years from discharge was 16.2% to 17.4% and the percentage of those admitted to prisons (only those admitted for the first time) within five years from discharge (the last discharge in the case of juveniles who were admitted to juvenile training schools more than once) was 8.7% to 9.6%.

Table 4-2-4-11  Status of re-admittance of juveniles discharged from juvenile training schools, etc. (1998–2007)