Guangdong Prison Administrative Bureau | |
Order: | st |
S: | 广东省监狱管理局 |
T: | 廣東省監獄管理局 |
P: | Guǎngdōngshěng jiānyù guǎnlǐ jú |
J: | Gwong2 Dung1 Saang2 gaam1 juk6 gun2 lei5 guk6 |
Guangdong Prison Administrative Bureau is the correctional agency of Guangdong Province, China. It is headquartered in Baiyun District, Guangzhou.[1] As of September 2014, Liu Fang is the head of the bureau.[2]
As of 2015, the province has 127 prisons and detention houses.[3]
From the beginning of 2014 until 2015 there were a series of incidents involving illegal sentence commutations and escapes from the Guangdong prison system.[3]
The prison in Jieyang created an online inmate information system in April 2014; this is the first such program in mainland China. In September 2014 the bureau announced that it was going to begin publishing inmate information online by the end of 2014.[2]
Guangdong province has over 24 prisons.[4]