Focus Taiwan
Date: 2018/05/04
By: Su Mu-chun and Kuan-lin Liu

Taipei, May 4 (CNA) The Ministry of Justice’s Agency of Corrections approved Friday an application by former President Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁) to have his medical parole extended to Aug. 4, the 14th time he has extended his time outside the Taichung Prison for medical reasons.

Lee Chin-kuo (李進國), deputy warden at the Taichung Prison, which is responsible for Chen’s jail sentence, told reporters that the diagnosis from the Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and the MacKay Memorial Hospital in Taipei found the former president’s condition to be complicated and difficult to control, which is why it cannot treated while he is in prison.

The Agency of Corrections therefore gave him another three-month extension, which went into effect immediately.    [FULL  STORY]