Xinhua News, 2009-07-27
“Safety First” is a major theme in the Ministry of Public Security's newly released “Opinion Regarding Further Strengthening and Improving of Public Security Supervision Work,” which outlines areas of reform in police-managed detention facilities. Among those reforms is a vow to “resolutely weed out any 'prison bully' growth from the earth” by: strictly forbidding the practice of using detainees to manage other detainees; enforcing the requirement that detention center personnel directly manage and supervise detainees; and creating a complete system for preventing the emergence of and striking hard against prison bullies, including “transitional supervision cells” and special observance of new detainees. Also detailed in the “Opinion” are requests for increased financial support and spending oversight—especially to prevent funds intended for detainee meals being diverted to other expenditures—and further supervision, both public and undercover, by procurators, people's congress representatives and others.
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