Last month, 800 prisoners in Beijing sat for China's biannual university degree-level exam for self-taught students.
For those diligent enough to pass, Beijing prision administrators said they could get a five month reduction of their term.
2 life sentences minus 5 months...what a relief?
Inmates at Beijiao Prison in Changchun have the option of a "Confucian classroom,' to cultivate virtures and adopt good behavior.
1 life sentences spent being good.
Prisoners in Shenyang get to apply Freudian theories of pyschoanalysis.
3 life sentences of punching walls to exhaustion and then baring their souls.
Chinese jails are said to be moving to extend inmate care and allowing more family visits.
Prisoner's rights...not on the agenda. Behave well and they won't go to jail. Behave better, get out sooner.
But education does serve a purpose for the prisoners.
What do you think?
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