Can you recommend a book on the Chinese Correctional/Prison system?
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Laogai—The Chinese Gulag by Hongda Harry Wu (Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, Inc., 1992); 247 pages; $34.95.
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I have some stuff to say on this: In a closed system some kinds of macro level insanity!  I was in mexican prison for a tad over two years for the offense of 'narcotraficante."  I studied the psychological components of the prisoner population.  A mini society of about 1500 males and 150 females.  Tensions of their particular blends of indidual frustration and impulsive too-long repressed anger fed into some people dying on several ocassions and this was studied from simple gangs killing one of each other's side over some trivial matter.  And another killing for one prisoner having been acused of a misdeed.  Ever more prisoners arriving and the crowding numbers reach for 1800 and on a calm warm day a clinic' drugged prisoner is shot dead between the fifteen-feet high brick wall and its paraelle twelve-foot chain-link fence.  Prisoners began to amass proximal the murder scene and within about twenty to thirty minutes the frustration and anger built to a crensendo.  A gun-tower guard had to be killed for sake of ballance and one was killed, in a most agonizing manner plus other injuries.  There's more on the gore but I'll spare you that data.  Americans know that they suffer immense frustrations with seemingly all implosive data pointing to how fu(ked we are and how we have apathy sublime.  The pot is a ways past warming and we have seen little pockets of social disorder in here and there in various city' riots.  We know that our society is gonna have to cycle a biggy one more time and when it does visit us it will but take the needed spark.  I'm sad we have let our society slip so far into our dung.  Our social-metality is producing few persons of reason.  History is ladden with examoles of these phenomena operant on macro levels.\nTreating the causes and less the symptoms could conceiveably place us into The Age of Reason and oh how a day we'd have.\nIt is taught that if you cannot learn from history then you are bound to repeat it.  After the adrenalin rushes are over, oh so spent and comfy.  The people having had enough blood letting we'd rather the dung would settle but it's all yet there.  It was diagnosed and treated and the causes but build back and entropy is operant once again.  What's the next ditty?
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Death penalty. Chi ching!\n\n(joke)
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Joseph Heller's "Catch 22" is great. You should also read Harper Lee's "To Kill A Mocking Bird." That is a truly awesome book.
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http://prisonactivist.org/pipermail/prisonact-list/2004-March/008873.html
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In Venezuela, my country, they are starting a program to teach Chinese to everyone interested, this is being ruled by the government.  Maybe you can check on this page http://www.gobiernoenlinea.ve/misc-view/index.pag
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Look here http://prisontalk.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?s=&daysprune=-1&f=102\nand may the time pass swiftly
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http://prisontalk.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?s=&daysprune=&f=56\nThere's a lot of information there about Texas prisons
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http://www.michigan.gov/corrections
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You should go to china , Once upon a time (about 20 years ago),China government implemented a social movement against criminal activities called "yangda" ----burglary,rape,robbery,bribery etc...anything could sentence to immediate execution by gun-shot (relatives paid for bullets fee, How miserly the government is!!!)
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The I-Ching is a great book.\n\nHope this helps!\n\n--J.
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this might help......www.prisontalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=62139
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I asked a similar question a few weeks ago and really got very little feedback. Chech out my Q&A.\nbut as far as I know it is a peaceful practice, based on meditation and universal peace...which makes the whole question all the more bizarre!!!!\ngoogle for more info.\nThe Chinese government is communist therefor information is tightly restricted!!\nWithin China the Fulon Gong support has grown to outnumber the support offered the Communist party., Thus threatening the strength of the party.\nApparantly the attacks on Fulon Gong members are horrific.\nThere was a report in a recent news paper about Labor?/rehabilitation camps in China, where Fulon Gong and other "Prisoners of Conscience" were being held for short periods of time and then used for the harvesting of organs, for commercial use. The apparant profit of which goes in part to the government.. the called it in the article "factory of spare parts"!!!!! I will try to find the article and send you on details if you areinterested.\nI was sick to my stomach when i read this!\nTrying to find information over the web is very difficult!! the only thing i can suggest is to find local organisations in your area! You will be amazed by what you discover through them.\nThe Boston Information number is (978) 994 4234\nAlso you could join Amnesty international...and even though there is not much info available there either...by posing questions you can show your support for publicising and addressing the situation in China more thoroughly.\nP.s. I am also just an everyday person who having read a very disturbing article tried to follow up on the onfo and see what i could find out.
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You are right on Scott.... another reason is that the U.S. is now the number one police state in the world.  China focuses on rehabilitation, not incarceration. \nOn top of that w have hundreds of thousands of citizens in prison for possessing small amounts of vegetation that grows wild along the roads. Follow the money trail, the criminal justice system is now using billions a year to administer draconian drug laws that have been proved frivolous in other countries.
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not that i know of - give me details on what your talking about.\n\n\nthanks for the details but by what i read he is a criminal who ought to be in jail \n"Jiang Lijun, 39, was sentenced for subversive activities on Nov. 18, 2003. He was accused of being the leader of a group of political dissidents and of seeking to use violence to impose democracy, including a plan to disrupt a Communist Party Congress by phoning in a false bomb scare to police,"
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Definitely agriculture for the entire population as most Chinese still live in the countryside.  For city dwellers only it would be a toss up between prostitution and armed services.  Can you be more specific?
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imprisonment without any biased nature