'Extreme Suicide Attempt' Shin Chang-won Returns to Prison After Three Days... Condition Improved

'Notorious escapee' Shin Chang-won, who had been receiving hospital treatment after attempting an extreme act while serving time in prison, has returned to prison.

Shin Chang-won [Photo by Yonhap News]

According to correctional authorities at Daejeon Prison on the 25th, Shin was discharged from a general hospital in Daejeon around 5 p.m. the previous day as his condition improved and returned to prison. It is known that Shin will continue to receive treatment within the prison and, if necessary, outpatient treatment as well.

The Ministry of Justice plans to investigate the reasons behind Shin's attempt at an extreme act.

On the evening of the 21st, around 8 p.m., Shin attempted an extreme act in his cell at Daejeon Prison but was discovered by prison staff and has since been treated in the intensive care unit of a general hospital. He was arrested and sentenced to life imprisonment for breaking into a house in Donam-dong, Seongbuk-gu, Seoul, in March 1989, stealing valuables worth about 30 million won, and stabbing the homeowner to death with a weapon.

In January 1997, during his eighth year of imprisonment, he tore off the ventilation grille in the prison bathroom and escaped from Busan Prison, leading a manhunt for two and a half years. He was later sentenced to an additional 22 years and 6 months and was incarcerated at North Gyeongbuk Prison. In August 2011, he also attempted an extreme act. In May 2019, he filed a complaint with the National Human Rights Commission claiming that he was being monitored by CCTV every moment while confined in solitary, which led to the removal of the CCTV.

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