China's Overlap Between Labor and Prisons NTDonChina

The Christmas shopping season is almost over. For many shoppers around the world, a lot of what they see will have this label: Made in China. For over a decade, China has turned into the world's factory, thanks to a penal system that provides super-low cost labor.

[Lu Jianhua, Former Slave Labor]
"The prison guards tell us we're slaves. They use whips and electric batons to make us work. We are never able to finish quotas, and they squeeze what they can from us."

Lu Jianhua spent four years in the Shenyang First Women's Prison in Liaoning province. It's not an ordinary prison, though. For international traders, this place is also called the "Shenyang Zhongji Enterprise Company, Limited." According to online searches, the two places share the same address.

This e-commerce website says the "company" has a "labor force" of more than 3,000 people. It mainly produces clothing, but also dabbles in Christmas decorations like this. These products are sold domestically and around the world.

[Jianhua Lu, Former Slave Labor]
"I don't know where they're exported to. They don't tell us. There are some English words, but we don't know where the products go."

Lu says the prison wardens here are given bonuses based on the production level. Detainees work more than 12 hours each day. But that's not all. Because Lu was sent there for her belief in Falun Gong, she was also tortured.

[Lu Jianhua, Former Slave Labor]
"They'll use the electric baton on my face, neck and arm. They can keep the baton in one place, it zaps and I could smell burning, and the shock made my body tremble all over."

In addition to prison inmates, there are an estimated 200,000 registered detainees in China's labor camps. Individuals can be sent there without any legal process. In 2008, the US State Department estimated practitioners of the Falun Gong spiritual practice make up about half that population.

As for Lu, she managed to escape China in 2009, and has since sought asylum in the United States.

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China's Overlap Between Labor and Prisons
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