Guangdong Prison Administrative Bureau

Simplified Chinese

广东省监狱管理局

Traditional Chinese

廣東省監獄管理局

Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Guǎngdōngshěng jiānyù guǎnlǐ jú
Yue: Cantonese
Jyutping	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]

History

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]

Prisons

Guangdong province has over 24 prisons.^[4]

Dongguan Prison
Guangdong Women's Prison
Jieyang Prison
Panyu Prison
Shaoguan Prison^[3]

References

^ "联系我们" (Archive). Guangdong Prison Administrative Bureau. Retrieved on December 24, 2015. "地址：广东省广州市白云区广园中路298号"
^ ^a ^b "Guangdong to put inmate information online" (Archive). Xinhua at China Daily. September 25, 2014. Retrieved on December 24, 2015.
^ ^a ^b ^c Zhang, Yan. "Guangdong submits proposals to fill loopholes in prisons" (Archive). China Daily. March 11, 2015. Retrieved on December 24, 2015.
^ Bischoff, Paul (September 24, 2014). "Connecting Asia's startup ecosystem". Tech in Asia. Retrieved May 11, 2016.