Do inmates receive counseling on affection before they completely serve their prison sentence in Vietnam?

Do inmates receive counseling on affection before they completely serve their prison sentence in Vietnam?

Pursuant to Clauses 1 and 2, Article 5 of Decree 49/2020/ND-CP stipulating psychological counseling, legal formality assistance for inmates as follows:

1. Two months before an inmate completely serves their prison sentence or after an approval for amnesty or conditional parole is granted by the competent authority, the detention facility shall provide psychological counseling and legal formality assistance for the mentioned inmate.

2. Psychological counseling aims to provide inmates with knowledge, orientate and raise their ability to solve their personal difficulties and problems by themselves during their community re-integration. Counseling contents include:

a) Counseling on affection, marriage, family, health; prevention and fight against drugs, HIV/AIDS and debauchery;

b) Counseling on eliminating inferiority complex; build up the will, belief, and ability to cope with and solve problems arising in the process of community reintegration;

c) Counseling on labor, jobs, utilization of vocation training, social insurance, and other relevant matters.

Thus, inmates receive counseling on affection before being released from prison to reintegrate into the community as above in Vietnam.

Is there individual affection counseling for inmates before their community re-integration in Vietnam?

According to Clause 3 of Article 5 of Decree 49/2020/ND-CP, there are provisions as follows:

3. Methods of psychological counseling for inmates:

a) Detention facilities shall have prisoners register their need for counseling by ballots stating matters which they need to be consulted or actively detect problems that inmates need to be consulted, thereby assign experienced and specialized officers to counsel the inmates in person. For the same matter, either individual counseling or group counseling is allowed;

b) Individual counseling shall be conducted in counseling rooms furnished with desks, chairs and other equipment necessary for the counseling.

According to this Article, the detention facility that organizes psychological counseling for inmates can provide affection counseling for each inmate or group counseling for a number of inmates in Vietnam.

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