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Reeducation Through Labor in China
URL: http://www.hrw.org/legacy/campaigns/china-98/laojiao.htm

Description:
This 1998 paper describes the Chinese "system of detention and punishment administratively imposed on those who are deemed to have committed minor offenses but are not legally considered criminals. Reeducation through labor ... is not to be confused with reform though labor ... the complex of prisons, labor camps, and labor farms for those sentenced judicially." Includes comparison of the criminal and non-criminal systems. From Human Rights Watch.

LII Topics: Crime, Criminal Justice

Publisher:
Human Rights Watch

Extra Keywords
rehabilitation

LII Database Information:
Record 26786 created by Maria Brandt on 08/25/2008
Last modification on 02/14/2009
Last review by Charlotte Bagby on 03/19/2009
Published: 02/14/2009  
Funding agency: California State Library
LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/26786

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