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The Center's Fundamental Philosophy

Building Together
- From [Coexistence with Community] to [Building Together] - Aiming for a Co-Built Facility

Shimane Asahi Rehabilitation Program Center aims for the genuine reformation and rehabilitation of prisoners and their reintegration into society. In the present day we have cast off the moorings and set sail for the open seas of penal correction. If we paused once again and looked back at the history of previous penal correction activities, however, we would see the history of the earnest struggles of those who were dedicated to the correction and rehabilitation of criminals. Please try to visualize the form that penal correction will take 30 or 50 years into the future beyond the present “Building Together” period.

From this stage of “Building Together,” we would like to begin making into reality a prison imbued with a new vision. We will make efforts that allow us to come one step closer to the ideal kind of penal correction that the future demands. The public and private sectors each make use of their intelligence and networks to build together with each other, and of course, they also place great importance on "building together" with the local community.  We at Shimane Asahi Rehabilitation Program Center embrace local ideas and are taking sincere initiatives to “build together” with the local community. At this new facility, we would like to create “the Shimane Asahi Rehabilitation Support Community Model”, which is integrated with the power of the local community, the experience of the state and the know-how of the private sector. We would also like to contribute to the society. Each and every member of us is operating this facility with such a lofty ideal.

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