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 …

China’s Laogai prison system was created soon after Mao Zedong and the Chinese Communist Party came to power in 1949 and it still exists today in its essential form.

The Laogai system is a natural outgrowth of a political system that seeks to bring all Chinese under the control of government autocracy. Over the past 40 years, Laogai production using …

2013年2月6日 · Among them is Harry Wu, a 75-year-old Chinese human rights activist who spent 19 years in so-called "re-education through labor," or laogai, a Chinese labor camp system …

2025年1月31日 · Dive deep into the harrowing history of Mao Zedong's Laogai system, where millions endured forced labor, torture, and indoctrination.

The Laogai System: China’s vast system of prisons and detention facilities in which inmates are forced to labor and endure Communist Party political indoctrination.

LAOGAI, the abbreviation for LAODONGGAIZAO, which means “reform through labor,” refers to an abolished criminal justice system and has been used to refer to the use of penal labor and …

The Laogai system was operated by the Ministry of Justice and controlled under the auspices of the Ministry of Public Security. The first type of Laogai, Convicted Labor Reform, is divided into …

what is the laogai? The Laogai system is the Chinese network of prisons, factories, and farms designed to reform prisoners through forced labor. The Chinese government uses the Laogai …

2017年11月1日 · Laogai is a system of labor camps spread throughout China. It's the new home of Song Kang, imprisoned for the crime of being a counter-revolutionary.