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New ghosts, old ghosts : prisons and labor reform camps in China
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New ghosts, old ghosts : prisons and labor reform camps in China

Author: James D Seymour; Richard Anderson
Publisher: Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, ©1998.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: James D Seymour; Richard Anderson
ISBN: 0765600978 9780765600974
OCLC Number: 37226900
Notes: "An East Gate book."
Description: xvii, 313 p. : maps ; 24 cm.
Contents: Foreword / Fan Sidong --
Prologue: Visiting the Xining Laogai Area --
Why the Northwest? --
Structural Overview --
Gansu --
Sentencing Patterns --
Total Prisoner Population --
The Economy of the Gansu Laogai --
Political and Religious Prisoners --
Xinjiang: One Region, Two Systems --
The Bingtuan and Its Laogai --
Department of Justice (Sifa) Laogai --
Management --
Prison Conditions --
The Economics of the Laogai --
Size and Nature of the Prisoner Population --
Outside Influences --
Qinghai --
Historical Overview --
Town and Country --
Sizing Up the Laogai --
Prison Conditions --
Special Populations --
Checking Up on the System --
Prisons and Human Rights --
Excesses in the Laogai --
China and the International Human Rights Regime --
The Aftermath: What Happens upon Release? --
Jiuye --
Recidivism --
The Economy of Laogai --
The Laogai in Theory and Practice --
The Laogai in Comparative Perspective --
Getting Modern --
Author's Commentaries --
The Laogai for Foreign Visitors Since 1995 --
The World Bank and Harry Wu --
Others' Commentaries --
Some Proposals to the National People's Congress Regarding the Prison Law (1994) --
Report on the Work of the Inspectorate in 1995 --
Decision of the United Nations Concerning China (1996) --
Laogai Regulations --
List of Laws Governing Labor Reform in China --
Regulations Concerning the Behavior of Criminals Undergoing Reform --
Regulations Concerning Treatment of Foreign Visitors to Labor Reform Units --
Regulations Guiding the Management of the Reform Environment in Prisons.
Responsibility: James D. Seymour and Richard Anderson ; foreword by Fan Sidong.

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