Re-education through labor
System of administrative detention in mainland China
Re-education through labor
Re-education through labor (RTL), abbreviated as laojiao (simplified Chinese: 劳教; traditional Chinese: 勞教; pinyin: láojiào), was an extrajudicial system of administrative detention in the People's Republic of China. Officially active from 1957 to 2013, the system was used to detain persons who were accused of committing minor crimes such as petty theft, prostitution, and trafficking of illegal drugs, as well as political dissidents, petitioners, and Falun Gong followers. It was separated from the much larger laogai system of prison labor camps. Sentences under re-education through labor were typically for one to three years, with the possibility of an additional one-year extension. They were issued as a form of administrative punishment by police, rather than the judicial system. While they were incarcerated, detainees were frequently subjected to a form of political education so they may serve the needs of the nation through productivity and a "love to labor". Estimates of the number...
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