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Studious inmates to be honored by Ministry of Justice

Twenty inmates are to be honored Tuesday by Minister of Justice Chen Ding-nan (陳定南) for passing the Joint University Entrance Examination and gaining admittance to universities.

A total of 25 prisoners took the tests this year with 20 making passing grades. All but one of them have been paroled to begin their studies.

The one whose application for parole was turned down by a parole board last week, better known as the "Hwakang Wolf," had been accepted by the department of sociology at National Taiwan University (NTU).

But his success in the entrance examination drew public attention to his criminal record -- convictions on 20 counts of rape and other sex offenses -- and public outcry. The parole board under the Ministry of Justice decided to keep the man behind bars to quell the controversy.

However, another prisoner, who was involved in a high-profile robbery of a well-known TV actress in 1990 and was also admitted by the NTU department of sociology, will walk free on parole this autumn.

The offender, identified only by his family name of Huang, and his two accomplices, broke into the mansion of television actress Pai Ping-ping (白冰冰) in Linko, Taipei County in August 1990.

Pai Ping-ping said she bore no grudges against Huang, saying yesterday that she wishes him well although she can't forget her terrible encounter with him 11 years ago.
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