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Laogai

Simplified Chinese

劳改

Traditional Chinese

勞改

Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	láogǎi

Full name

Simplified Chinese

劳动改造

Traditional Chinese

勞動改造

Literal meaning

reform through labor

Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	láodòng gǎizào

Map of China showing alleged locations of laogai camps in the 1990s
50,000,000 people passed through the camps Millions of deaths^{[clarification needed]}

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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 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".^[1] Persons who were detained in the laojiao were detained in facilities that were separate from those which comprised the general prison system of the laogai. Both systems, however, were based on penal labor.

Some writers have likened the laogai to slavery.^[2]^[3]^[4] Some historians have estimated that the system caused tens of millions of deaths.

^ "Reeducation Through Labor in China". Human Rights Watch. June 1998. Archived from the original on October 12, 2007. Retrieved October 12, 2008.
^ Cite error: The named reference AJE21Slave was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ Cite error: The named reference chapman was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ Buckley, Chris; Ramzy, Austin (December 16, 2018). "China's Detention Camps for Muslims Turn to Forced Labor". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on June 21, 2020. Retrieved June 21, 2020.

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