laojiao

This includes so-called laojiao or reeducation through labor, a form of administrative rather than judicial detention, where dissidents, petty criminals and vagrants can be imprisoned for several years without a trial, Wu's group said.

Taipei Times 2008

He attempted a return to China in 1998, was captured again, and sentenced through "laojiao" (administrative detention) to three years in a labor camp.

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Any "laojiao" able to estimate the price when it comes out with or w / o contract?

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Any "laojiao" able to estimate the price when it comes out with or w / o contract?

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The emphasis in re-education-through-labor is on the labor: People sentenced to so-called laojiao may spend as much as 12 to 14 hours a day, according to some accounts, doing work like construction, making bricks, or mining.

How Educational Is A Chinese Re-Educational Camp? | Disinformation 2008

Some laojiao camps do have rules requiring inmates to study two hours a day, although one in-depth report on a camp in southern China found that sessions occurred only when there was a lull in production.

How Educational Is A Chinese Re-Educational Camp? | Disinformation 2008

The China Daily story was titled, New law to abolish laojiao system, and ran on March 1, 2007.

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Ying Songnian, a law expert and NPC deputy, said that flaws with laojiao lie in its implementation procedure because there is no strict legal boundary in deciding the length of detention.

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Under laojiao the police can "sentence a person guilty of such minor offenses as petty theft and prostitution, to a maximum of four years 'incarceration," says the China Daily.

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According to Wikipedia, "persons detained under laojiao are detained in facilities which are separate from the general prison system."

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