Traditional Chinese 廣東省監獄管理局 | Simplified Chinese 广东省监狱管理局 | |
Hanyu Pinyin Jyutping Gwong2 Dung1 Saang2 gaam1 juk6 gun2 lei5 guk6 | ||
Guangdong Prison Administrative Bureau is the correctional agency of Guangdong Province, China. It is headquartered in Baiyun District, Guangzhou. As of September 2014 Liu Fang is the head of the bureau.
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As of 2015 the province has 127 prisons and detention houses.
History
From the beginning of 2014 until 2015 there were a series of incidents involving illegal sentence commutations and escapes from the Guangdong prison system.
The prison in Jieyang created an online inmate information system in April 2014; this is the first such program in Mainland China. In September 2014 the bureau announced that it was going to begin publishing inmate information online by the end of 2014.
Prisons
Guangdong province has over 24 prisons.
References
Guangdong Prison Administrative Bureau Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA