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Q: What are Chinese prisons like?
I know that back home I would never, ever want to go to prison. I'm pretty sure I wouldn't make it out alive. How are Chinese prisons?
10 years 8 weeks ago in Visa & Legalities - China
Probably not much fun. I think most prisons in northern Europe have better facilities than most normal peoples apartments do in China. Unless of course you compare to that prison where Bo Xilai is spending his retirement.
Google translate this http://mp.weixin.qq.com/s?__biz=MjM5MTI4ODIwNA==&mid=200020469&idx=3&sn=244aa1464ee078af7c00ff776f609ba7&scene=2 it will tell you something about what surprises a Chinese person about a prison in the civilized world.
Probably depends on who you are and the size of your wealth, and can range from horrible to pretty cozy, like everything else.
If you are a foreigner, you go to the foreigner prison. Probably if a foreigner got arrested in a city and thrown in jail, they would be by themselves or with other foreigners. Saying that, I think a foreigner really has to "f*** uo" to wind up in jail or prison here, violence or drugs.
Considering how bad most common Chinese food is in the "free World" think of the crap served in the prison. Probably gruel, watery soup and rice everyday. I will probably agree with TMaster, the conditions of the prison probably corresponds with the crime and how much wealth one has.
Did you read about that f*** in Norway who blew up a building and killed all those kids on an island camp (Bearing Brevik I think is his name). He wants a new PlayStation, because his old PlayStation is not good enough for him. As in, he has a PlayStation which means he has a TV in his cell. In China, he would have been executed. In the USA, he would have been in a Supermax and then executed, and this clown gets to play Crash Bandicoot? If you are going to commit a violent crime, go to Scandinavia.
brother1818:
A friend of mine went to a detention centre for 2 weeks before getting deported. He said the conditions weren't that bad ( I guess it's a detention centre not a prison), he was in there with only Chinese people. He said that most days for lunch they would have lettuce soup, as in lettuce in boiling water with salt. crazy! and they would pour it through a pipe in the wall into a bucket on the other side (inside the cell) and each guy would have to scoop it out of the bucket.
Scandinavian:
A thing about going to Scandinavia to commit a horrible crime. You are likely to be deported to where ever your passport says you are from. After time served that is. But in some cases, you can also be deported straight to another country's prison system if the two countries have an agreement on such topics.
I read an article once about Chinese prison and how they make you do hard manual labor. Allegedly, they rounded up a group of Tai Chi practitioners. This particular style of tai chi was tied to some religious affiliation and that's a big no-no apparently. The article said there were a group of elderly men and women moving big rocks in the yard all day long from one pile..then moving it back to another pile. If it is true... that's absolutely horrible.
WanderingTeacher:
lol It looks kind of cool actually. I'm still trying to figure out exactly what it is. I took Tai Chi my first 2 years in college and it looks similar, but the forms are completely different. Apparently though, the police have decided to stop persecuting these practitioners and have even released some of them. ( http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/516616-why-some-chinese-police-have-change-of-heart-about-falun-gong-persecution/ ) Some have gone so far to warn people to not join the CCP or it's affiliates.
The American in me jumps in joy inside myself for them telling the government to essentially "go eff themselves," but alas, I recall the many conversations I have had with my student's parents and their friends who have this notion that they have to accept what the government says is law, and that they cannot change it. Now the American in me sits in the corner his head down telling himself to shut up before I get thrown into a force labor camp.
Scandinavian:
It's not many months ago where I saw a group of children and adults perform falun gong in a central square of my capital, with signs about human rights violatations in China. I also know of a Chinese citizen in Scandinavia who can never go back to China because of her gymnastics.
There are some pictures here
http://world.time.com/2012/10/25/scenes-from-inside-chinas-prison-system...
I am guessing they have let reporters into the nicest of all, since this looks a lot cleaner than most hospitals, schools, PSB offices etc.
Scandinavian:
some more articles
http://asiancorrespondent.com/89093/a-look-inside-chinas-luxury-prison/
http://www.economist.com/node/666542
Better than 99.99% of China's luxury mansions... IF you have money. See Bo Xilai, etc.
