print email comment close Laogai: "Reform Through Labor" in China URL: http://www.wcl.american.edu/hrbrief/07/2laogai.cfm Description: This 2000 article describes "'Laogai,' which translates from Mandarin to mean 'reform through labor,' [and] is the Chinese [criminal] system of labor prison factories, detention centers, and re-education camps." Topics include the three types of Laogai (convict labor, re-education through labor, and forced job placement), conditions, and applicable Chinese law and international law standards. From Human Rights Brief, a student-run publication of the Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Washington College of Law. Author: Pejan, Ramin Publisher: Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Washington College of Law LII Database Information: Record 26787 created by Maria Brandt on 08/25/2008 Last modification on 08/25/2008 Published: 09/03/2008   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/26787