Laogai
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Laogai (Template:Zh), the abbreviation for Template:Zh (Template:Lang-zh), which means "reform through labor", refers to abolished criminal justice system and has been used to refer to the use of penal labour 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".
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See also
- Internment
- Penal labor in the United States
- Xinjiang re-education camps
- Extermination through labour
- Gulag – the equivalent of the laogai in the Soviet Union
- Prisons in North Korea
- Harry Wu
- Human rights in China
- Jean Pasqualini
- Kwalliso – the equivalent of the laogai in North Korea
- Laogai Museum
- Laogai Research Foundation
- Military Units to Aid Production – the equivalent of the laogai in Cuba
- Nazi concentration camps
- Penal colony
- Penal system in China
- Re-education camp (Vietnam) – the equivalent of the laogai in Vietnam
- Spaç Prison – the equivalent of the laogai in the People's Socialist Republic of Albania
- Orientations for the Chinese Clergy
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