print email comment close 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. 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