From April this year minor offenders in Qinghai province will have a chance to join community correction programmes (社区矫正, shequ jiaozheng), which have been experimented with since 2003 in other provinces.
Twenty-two communities will be opened up in Xining, and five in Gemuer. Communities will receive the following offenders:
Community correction centres will be run cooperatively by justice organs, NGOs and volunteers.
Twenty-two communities will be opened up in Xining, and five in Gemuer. Communities will receive the following offenders:
- Those sentenced to public surveillance (管制 guanzhi)
- Those who have received a suspended sentence
- Those released on medical parole, pregnant and nursing women, those who have no means of livelihood and are not socially dangerous
- Those released on parole
- Those sentenced to deprivation of political rights.
Community correction centres will be run cooperatively by justice organs, NGOs and volunteers.
