More than 100 sex offenders and murderers will be strapped with electronic anklets upon their parole
expected this week, the Justice Ministry said.
The prisoners, 90 murderers and 19 sex offenders, are set for parole marking the Aug. 15 Liberation Day when Japan's 36-year colonial rule over the Korean Peninsula ended in 1945.
The ministry said the large number of convicts subject to electronic anklets is primarily from last month's law revision requiring the tracking device on murderers as well as sex offenders.
The revised law also allows retroactive application, which put 11 former sex offenders under the monitoring system over the past month. These ex-convicts had not been forced to wear the anklets as they were convicted before September 2008, when the law on electronic monitoring was first implemented.
Ministry officials said 6,910 ex-convicts are subject to retroactive application.