Guangdong Prison Administrative Bureau
Correctional agency of Guangdong Province, China
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Guangdong Prison Administrative Bureau is the correctional agency of Guangdong Province, China. It is headquartered in Baiyun District, Guangzhou.[1] As of September 2014, Liu Fang is the head of the bureau.[2]
| Guangdong Prison Administrative Bureau | |||||||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 广东省监狱管理局 | ||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 廣東省監獄管理局 | ||||||||||
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As of 2015, the province has 127 prisons and detention houses.[3]
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.[3]
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.[2]
Prisons
Guangdong province has over 24 prisons.[4]
- Dongguan Prison
- Guangdong Women's Prison
- Jieyang Prison
- Panyu Prison
- Shaoguan Prison[3]
