How can this be? Let's face it these forced labor camps are the bread and butter of all best authoritarian Communist regimes. Will China be allow to remain in the in the "There aren't but a few of us happy torturers club"? Can't you feel the isolation coming from Vietnam and Cuba. Will they need therapy?
The country’s “re-education through labour” or “laojiao” system - which allows police to jail minor offenders or political dissidents in special camps for up to four years without going through the courts - was first established under Chairman Mao Zedong in 1957 and has seen millions detained over the decades.
China has 310 labour camps holding about 310,000 prisoners and employing 100,000 staff, according to a report on the state broadcaster CCTV.
When originally established, the labour camps were administered by a mixture of civil affairs officials, public security officers and labour officials. Reform of the system in 2002 left public security in charge, and the system became mostly used for dealing with offenders such as petitioners who bring grievances to the central government in the hope of redress.
Public criticism of the system has been mounting. In August, a mother who petitioned courts and local government officials for tougher penalties for seven men who were convicted of abducting, raping and prostituting her 11-year-old daughter, was sentenced to 18 months in a labour camp. She was released within a week following complaints from academics, state media and the public.
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