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College renames China's only 'laojiao' department  

中国惟一“劳教系”更名 学生:尚未有实质变化

劳动教养制度废止,高校劳教管理系也“寿终正寝”。近日,开设全国惟一一个劳教管理系的中央司法警官学院发布消息称,该校劳教管理系已正式更名为“矫正教育系”。[查看全文]
2013-11-20 13:59 Ecns.cn Web Editor: Gu Liping
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The Central Institute for Correctional Police in Baoding city.

The Central Institute for Correctional Police in Baoding city.

(ECNS) -- With China taking concrete steps to end the controversial "reeducation through labor" system, commonly known as the "laojiao" system, the country's only laojiao department at a college in Hebei province has been officially renamed, the Beijing News reports.

The Central Institute for Correctional Police in Baoding city established the Laojiao Department in 1985. The department has now been renamed the "Correctional Education" department, the report said.

Gao Ying, dean of the department, said the renaming is not only the result of the central government's decision to abolish the "reeducation through labor" system.

Since 2001, the college has shifted the department's focus to correctional services, as well as added sociology and pedagogy to the curriculum, Gao said.

Chen Jiaquan, a student at the department, told reporters they had taken a course named "Laojiao Xue" (Scientific Study of the Laojiao System). "We were assigned a thesis addressing whether the 'laojiao' system should be abolished," Chen said.

Since it was launched in the 1950s, the "laojiao" system has taken in criminals whose offenses were not severe enough to warrant trial.

China will abolish the "reeducation through labor" system as part of a major effort to protect human rights, said a key policy document of the Communist Party of China (CPC) published last Friday.

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