List of prisons in Xinjiang

Last updated April 19, 2019

This is a list of prisons within Xinjiang region of the People's Republic of China.

Xinjiang, officially the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (XUAR), is a provincial-level autonomous region of China in the northwest of the country. It is the largest Chinese administrative division and the eighth largest country subdivision in the world, spanning over 1.6 million km². Xinjiang contains the disputed territory of Aksai Chin, which is administered by China and claimed by India. Xinjiang borders the countries of Mongolia, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan (Gilgit-Baltistan), and India. The rugged Karakoram, Kunlun, and Tian Shan mountain ranges occupy much of Xinjiang's borders, as well as its western and southern regions. Xinjiang also borders Tibet Autonomous Region and the provinces of Gansu and Qinghai. The most well-known route of the historical Silk Road ran through the territory from the east to its northwestern border. In recent decades, abundant oil and mineral reserves have been found in Xinjiang, and it is currently China's largest natural gas-producing region.

Name	Enterprise name	City/County/District/Prefecture	Village/Town	Established	Notes
A'ertai Prison	A'ertai Gold Mine
Autonomuous Region No. 4 Prison		Ürümqi
Baicheng Prison	Baicheng Coal Mine		Baicheng County
Buya Prison
Changji Prison	Xiabahu Farm; Cement Mill; Quarry; Changji Prison Coal Mine; Xingwang Knitting Factory	Changji Hui Autonomous Prefecture
Donggebi Prison	Donggebi Farm; Xinjiang Prov. Plant for Zinc and Lead		Ürümqi
Fuhai Prison	Fuhai Prison Grain and Oil Processing Factory; Fuhai Coal Mine	Fuhai County, Altay Prefecture and Tacheng Prefecture
Halabula Prison		Künes County, Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture	Halabula
Halihuqi Prison	Halihuqi Farm	Kashgar Prefecture
Ili Juvenile Offender Detachment	Ili JOD, Chicken Farm
Ka'erdun Prison	Ka'erdun Farm	Aksu Prefecture
Kashgar Juvenile Offender Detachment		Shufu County	Shaiman
Keriya Prison	Keriya Farm	Keriya County			1,400 inmates with sentences of 15 years or less
Kuchar Prison	Kuchar Prison Farm Ginnery; Kuchar Prison Coal Mine	Kuqa County, Aksu Prefecture	Qiman
Pailou Prison	Pailou Farm Brickyard	Yarkant County, Kashgar Prefecture	Dunbage
Reform Through Labor Prison^[1]		Korla
Shayar Prison	Shayar Talimu Farm	Xayar County, Aksu Prefecture
Talimu Prison	Talimu Livestock Farm; Cotton Processing Plant; Brickyard	Xayar County, Aksu Prefecture
Turpan Prison	Cement Plant	Turpan, Turpan Prefecture	Daheyan
Urumqi Juvenile Offender Detachment	Urumqi JOD Yucai Industrial Trade Company	Xinshi District, Ürümqi		1956	Ethnic groups present include Mongolians, Han, Hui and Uyghurs
Wusu Prison	Wusu Prison Coal Mine	Wusu
Xinjiang No. 1 Prison	Xinjiang No. 3 Machine Tool Works; Cement Plant; Xinjiang No. 1 Prison Paper Products Plant; Xinjiang No. 1 Prison Prison Cashmere Workshop	Ürümqi		1958	A third are ethnic minorities
Xinjiang No. 5 Prison	Xinjiang No. 5 Xieli Sand Plant	Ürümqi
Xinjiang Prod. & Const. Corps 6th Agricultural Div. Fangcaohu Prison	Fangcaohu Farm	Hutubi County
Xinjiang Prod. & Const. Corps 6th Agricultural Div. Xinhu Prison	Yuxin Cotton Ginnery; Xinhu Farm	Manas County, Changji Hui Autonomous Prefecture
Xinjiang Prod. and Const. Corps Xishan Prison	Xishan Compound Fertilizer Plant			1991
Xinjiang Prod. & Const. Corps 7th Agricultural Div. Kuitun Prison	Kuitun Hongshan Coal Mine	Karamay and Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture	Gongqing and Kuytun
Xinjiang Uyghur Aut. Region Hotan Prison	Xinjiang Hotan Prison Internal Power Plant		Tashkurgan Town
Xinjiang Women's Prison	Urumqi Commodity Chemical Plant; Xinjiang Women's Prison Embroidery Workshop	Ürümqi		1953
Yi'ning Prison	Puli Uranium Mine	Ghulja

Sources

"Laogai Handbook 2007-2008" (PDF) (in Chinese and English). Washington, D.C.: Laogai Research Foundation. October 2008. pp. 467–486. ISBN 978-1-931550-25-3 . Retrieved 24 May 2017.

International Standard Book Number Unique numeric book identifier

The International Standard Book Number (ISBN) is a numeric commercial book identifier which is intended to be unique. Publishers purchase ISBNs from an affiliate of the International ISBN Agency.

Related Research Articles

Laogai, the abbreviation for Láodòng Gǎizào, which means "reform through labor", is a slogan of the Chinese criminal justice system and has been used to refer to the use of penal labour and prison farms in the People's Republic of China (PRC). Láogǎi is different from láojiào, or re-education through labor, which was an administrative detention system for people who were not criminals but had committed minor offenses, and was intended to "reform offenders into law-abiding citizens". Persons detained under laojiao were detained in facilities that were separate from the general prison system of laogai. Both systems, however, involved penal labor.

Re-education through labor, abbreviated laojiao was a system of administrative detention in Mainland China. The system was active from 1957 to 2013, and was used to detain persons accused of minor crimes such as petty theft, prostitution, and trafficking illegal drugs, as well as political dissidents, petitioners, and Falun Gong adherents. It was separate from the much larger laogai system of prison labor camps.

Harry Wu was a Chinese-American human rights activist. Wu spent 19 years in Chinese labor camps, and he became a resident and citizen of the United States. In 1992, he founded the Laogai Research Foundation.

Re-education camp may refer to:

Yangquan No. 1 Prison is a prison in Yinying Town in Shanxi province of China. It was founded in June 1952. It is connected to Yinying Coal Mine, said to be a forced labour mine, which produces 1.38 million tonnes of high grade anthracite per year. In 1992 it housed 7000 inmates.

Lianping Prison is a prison in Guangdong province, China, situated in Zhongxin town, Lianping County. It was established as Huiyang Region Liantang Laogai Farm in 1972. It is a large-scale prison where prisoners work in the nearby Lianping Prison Tea Manufacturing Plant (连平监狱制茶厂).

The Laogai Research Foundation is a human rights NGO located in Washington, D.C, United States. The foundation's mission is to "gather information on and raise public awareness of the Laogai—China's extensive system of forced-labor prison camps."

The Laogai Museum is a museum in Dupont Circle, Washington, D.C., United States, which showcases human rights in the People's Republic of China, focusing particularly on the Láogǎi, the Chinese prison system of "Reform through Labor". The creation of the museum was spearheaded by Harry Wu, a well-known Chinese dissident who himself served 19 years in laogai prisons; it was supported by the Yahoo! Human Rights Fund. It opened to the public on 12 November 2008, and Wu's non-profit research organization calls it the first museum in the United States to directly address the issue of human rights in China.

References

↑ "Xinjiang Authorities Jail Uyghur Imam Who Took Son to Unsanctioned Religious School". Radio Free Asia. May 10, 2018. According to the secretary, Ahmet is serving his sentence in Bayin’gholin (Bayinguoleng) Mongol Autonomous Prefecture at the Reform Through Labor Prison in Korla (Kuerle) city.

This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.

[1] "Xinjiang Authorities Jail Uyghur Imam Who Took Son to Unsanctioned Religious School". Radio Free Asia. May 10, 2018. According to the secretary, Ahmet is serving his sentence in Bayin’gholin (Bayinguoleng) Mongol Autonomous Prefecture at the Reform Through Labor Prison in Korla (Kuerle) city.