A jail by another name—China labor camps now drug detox centers

Reuters ^ | Sat Nov 30, 2013 7:20pm EST | John Ruwitch

[Olog-hai]

Li Zhongying was freed from a Chinese labor camp ahead of schedule in September because, guards told her, the government was scrapping “re-education through labor”, a heavily criticized penal system created in the 1950s.

Several hundred other inmates were not so lucky, she said. Like Li, they were held without trial and forced to do factory work under what she called “cruel” conditions. They remained because they were drug offenders, she told Reuters.

Many of China’s re-education through labor camps, instead of being abolished in line with a ruling Communist Party announcement this month, are being turned into compulsory drug rehabilitation centers where inmates can be incarcerated for two years or more without trial. …

[Tennessee Nana]

Nora Lam

[Standing Wolf]

...compulsory drug rehabilitation centers where inmates can be incarcerated for two years or more without trial.

President You Didn't Build That turns green with envy and orders Eric "Fast & Furious" Holder how to make incarceration without trial happen faster than a government web site can be cobbled together. Holder leaps to his knees, gets his nose browner, hastens to make it happen instantly.

[Vendome]

Don’t care what they call it. Just keep my new liver fresh.

/s

[cloudmountain]

Speaking of horrendous prisons, I was watching the Russian version of horrible prisons: gulags.

Right after that was a documenetary on the Russian serial killer Andrei Chikatilo - the Butcher of Rostov, the Red Ripper, the Forest Strip Killer (and such) in Novocherkassk, Russia.
They finally executed him in 1994 by a gunshot behind right ear.

That demon made other serial killers look tame. Wow, what a sicko.
He was a chronic bed wetter as a boy and his mother berated him unmercifully AND beat/whipped the holy pie out of him while she did it...daily and several times a day until he was 16 or so. Not surprised at all at his hatred toward women.

I don't know if any of you remember Carol Chessman. He was the first man in California to be executed for rape (not murder). He raped over two dozen women before he was caught. HIS mother used to tie him to the stove every day and horse-whip him.

My husband was a prison guard (when he was 24 years old) at San Quentin Penitentiary for six months. He saw Chessman...and said what a sicko he was.