Laogai

Laogai
Simplified Chinese劳改
Traditional Chinese勞改
Full name
Simplified Chinese劳动改造
Traditional Chinese勞動改造
Literal meaningreform through labor

Map of China showing alleged locations of laogai camps in the 1990s

Laogai (Chinese: 劳改), short for laodong gaizao (劳动改造), which means reform through labor, is a criminal justice system involving the use of penal labor and prison farms in the People's Republic of China (PRC). Láogǎi is different from láojiào, or re-education through labor, which was the abolished administrative detention system for people who were not criminals but had committed minor offenses, and was intended to "reform offenders into law-abiding citizens".[1] Persons who were detained in the laojiao were detained in facilities that were separate from those which comprised the general prison system of the laogai. Both systems, however, were based on penal labor.

Some writers have likened the laogai to slavery.[2][3][4] Some historians have estimated that the system caused tens of millions of deaths.

  1. ^ "Reeducation Through Labor in China". Human Rights Watch. June 1998. Archived from the original on October 12, 2007. Retrieved October 12, 2008.
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  4. ^ Buckley, Chris; Ramzy, Austin (December 16, 2018). "China's Detention Camps for Muslims Turn to Forced Labor". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on June 21, 2020. Retrieved June 21, 2020.

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