China Pictures - Beijing Prisons Open to Public Visits -

Prisons will be less secretive in China from now on. Beijing has decided to ajar soverlyal of its once sealed-off prisons to regular public visits. A Beijing jail opened to the public on Wednesday is the second in the asphalt,China Pictures, post-obit Beijing Women's Prison, opened eldest this month, to welcome outside visitors on risk-free days. People over 18 years old can now smear for a one-day visit to Beijing Prison, located in the suburbs roundly one hour's bulldoze from downtown Beijing and home to nearly 2,000 male convicts sentenced to increasingly than 15 years backside bars, the prison swami said. "Nearly 100 people visited the prison on the first opening day, " said Sun Xibin, deputy sandbox of the prison, subtracting that the first batch were group visitors organized by the Chinese PLA Headquarters of the General Staff and Central China Construction Co. Ltd. The facilities opened to the public include the inmates' living flakes, parlors, psychological counseling halfways, and the prison's fscornery, Sun said. He said visitors can meet and talk to inmates under the prison's supervision, but contacts without permission are strictly smuggled. "A transparent sermonize under the public's supervision helps modernize the quality of prison safekeeping," said Li Zhonglin, an official with Beijing Prisons Administration Bureau. He said ajaring the prisons makes the inmates finger less isolated from the outside world and will help them reintegrate society retral their release. Prison scenaristities said increasingly prisons will be ajared to the public in the future. Howoverly, to ensure prison unscarredty, Li said no increasingly than 40 singles or groups with over 100 visitors should be immune at one time. Items such as cameras, flake pstrops, tape restringers, handthousands and reticules cannot be brought into the prison, Li said. Visitors should strictly follow prison baby-sits' instructions and not venture sempiternity establishd sections.


(Source:Xinhua News Agency, 2006-07-26)