Temporary Protection means that rehabilitated will be given travel allowances, for them to return to domicile or other places, such as subsidization of medical expenses, household registration, meals and accommodation, or given small loans for starting businesses, or other appropriate means of protection. In the majority of cases, such assistance is provided right after the release of the prisoner.
Means of Protection
( 3 ) Temporary Protection
A. Travel Allowances
Financial assistance is given to those who are freshly released from prison and lack the funds necessary to return home, or who become unemployed away from home, or who fail to meet the friends they arranged to meet, and are temporarily stranded away from home.
B. Subsidization of Medical Expenses
Subsidization of a part of the medical expenses is given to the rehabilitated in financial hardship, who receive medical treatment for injury or illness at a public hospital, medical center or regional hospital and are unable to cover the medical expenses on their own.
C. Financial Assistance for Meals and Accommodation
Financial assistance is provided where an after-care participant is far away from home and must return home by car, ferry or airplane, and where he/she is unable to bear the cost of meals and accommodation while waiting for the scheduled time of travel. Money is also provided to after-care participants who must undergo medical treatment or be sent to alternative care due to physical or mental impediment, and are unable to bear the costs of meals and accommodation incurred in the course of travel.
D. Escort Home or to Other Places
Where the rehabilitated wishes to return home after being released from prison, but is unable to do so due to a mental or physical hardship, being too old or too young, returning home after releases or is homeless, and must be transferred to a welfare or medical institution for accommodation or treatment, an escort will be provided to home or where the welfare or medical institution is located
E. Loan for Starting a New
(A) Small Loan for Starting New:
When a less than four years the rehabilitated has the entrepreneurial ability and experience to operate a small business but lacks the required funds, in the interests of enabling such person to make his/her own living, a small loan (NT$400,000~600,000) will be granted upon the case being assessed and approved by the branch assessment team, provided that the after-care participant provides two or more persons with financial ability or of honest background as his/her co-guarantors, or provides real estate for mortgage.
(B) After-Care Business Loan
A loan is provided with interest free loan for an after-care business (under NT$1,000,000) that offers job opportunities to after-care participants.