The warrant of execution from the Minister of Justice is received and performed by the High Prosecutors offices, so executions are carried out inside the detention centers of the six municipalities with a High Court: Taipei, Taichung, Tainan, Kaohsiung, Hualien, and Kinmen. Like Japan, ROC death row inmates are kept in detention centres but not prisons, Both the Criminal Procedure and the Prison Act states that an execution must be conducted in a prison. However, since death row inmates are remanded in detention centres for the entirety of court proceedings, the Ministry of Justice ruled that inmates need not be transferred to another prison after the final verdict. Therefore, execution ranges in Taiwan are located in detention centres that nominally belong to respective city prisons, except where the prison is next to the detention centre. and under harsher conditions than general prisoners. Typically two inmates are housed in a cell (or solitary imprisonment in cases of misbehavior or violence). The practice of shackling prisoners 24 hours a day has been reported to be no longer in effect, but prisoners on death row are only allowed to leave the cell for half an hour a day for exercise. Prisoners are allowed to read censored newspapers and books as well as practise religious activities with approved religious personnel.
