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The penal system in the People's Republic of China is composed of an administrative detention system and a judicial incarceration system. As of 2020, it is estimated that 1.7 million people had been incarcerated in the People's Republic of China, which is the second-highest prison population after the United States.
The conditions in these camps are considered extremely harsh by most of the world's cultures. However, the Chinese government considers Laogai to be effective in controlling prisoners and furthering China's economy. According to Mao Zedong, "The Laogai facilities are one of the violent component parts of the state machine.
The Five Punishments (Chinese: 五刑; pinyin: wǔ xíng; Cantonese Yale: ńgh yìhng) was the collective name for a series of physical penalties meted out by the legal system of pre-modern dynastic China. [1] Over time, the nature of the Five Punishments varied. Before the Western Han dynasty Emperor Han Wendi (r.
China has sentenced a high-profile Uyghur academic to life in prison on charges of "endangering state security", a U.S.-based rights group said, citing a Chinese government source. Rights ...
Pages in category "Prison and correctional agencies in China" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
A photograph of Shayang Re-education Through Labor camp in Hubei province, from the archives of the Laogai Museum. Re-education through labor (RTL; simplified Chinese: 劳动教养; traditional Chinese: 勞動教養; pinyin: láodòng jiàoyǎng), abbreviated laojiao (simplified Chinese: 劳教; traditional Chinese: 勞教; pinyin: láojiào) was a system of administrative detention in the ...
This article's lead section may be too long. Please read the length guidelines and help move details into the article's body. (January 2025) Persecution of Uyghurs in China Part of the Xinjiang conflict Detainees listening to speeches in a camp in Lop County, Xinjiang, April 2017 Xinjiang, highlighted red, shown within China Location Xinjiang, China Date 2014–present Target Uyghurs, Kazakhs ...
The Chinese government has upped the severity of the punishments by including bribery of government officials on a list of offenses that carry a sentence of life in prison (Zhu, 2015). According to the findings of recent research, the huge network of government officials, bank insiders, and criminal businesses involved in fraud is a significant ...