China’s chilling pre-crime prison indoctrination system A Chinese national flag flutters near the surveillance cameras mounted on a lamp post in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, Friday, March 15, 2019.

In 1990, China abandoned the term “laogai” and labeled the detention facilities “prisons,” a new definition that included “laojiao,” meaning “re-education through labor.” ...

Even so, the prison system in Xinjiang has struggled to cope with a flood of new inmates. ... Page 12 of the New York edition with the headline: China’s Prisons Swell as Courts Take Aim at Muslims .

We hope that, based on the amendment of the Prison Law in 2012, China's legislation department will modify and improve the law again soon. On this occasion, the prisoners' human rights protection ...

China has secretly constructed new prisons and internment camps over the past several years as the ... as makeshift detention centers to the use of a permanent prison infrastructure system, ...

Hints emerged Monday that China may terminate its controversial system of labor prison camps this year. The proposal to stop using the system was put forth at a working conference by the country ...

Credit: Illustration by Catherine Putz. On February 26, China’s Ministry of Justice released the second batch of data on COVID-19 outbreaks in the country’s prison system.

Prisons emerged as a new flashpoint in the fast-spreading coronavirus as three Chinese provinces reported outbreaks at penitentiaries, adding hundreds of previously unpublished cases to the ...

China has sentenced a Japanese pharmaceutical executive to three and a half year in prison for espionage, a decision that ...