The Beijing Municipal Administration of Prisons () is an agency of the
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Beijing ( ; ; ), alternatively romanized as Peking ( ), is the capital of the People's Republic of China. It is the center of power and development of the country. Beijing is the world's most populous national capital city, with over 21 ...
, operating prisons.
It is a part of the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Justice.
[The Beijing Municipal Bureau of Justice]
. City of Beijing. Retrieved on May 16, 2015
Directors
* Tian Jinghua - 1912–1914 - The first director of the bureau
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* Wang Wenbao - 1914–1926 - He had been trained in
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Prisons
* Beijing Municipal No. 1 Prison
*Beijing Municipal Prison
Beijing Municipal Prison () is a prison in Daxing District, Beijing.
Originally established by the Qing dynasty on 31 March 1909, the present Daxing site was built in 1982 and the municipal prison officially moved there on 8 November 1994. It ha ...
* Beijing Municipal No. 2 Prison
*Beijing Women's Prison
Beijing Women's Prison () is a prison in Daxing District, Beijing, China. It was established in 1999.
It is operated by the Beijing Municipal Administration of Prisons.
Home to nearly 1,000 female prisoners in Beijing and is Beijing's only pris ...
See also
* Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau
References
Citations
Sources
* Kiely, Jan. ''The Compelling Ideal: Thought Reform and the Prison in China, 1901-1956''. Yale University Press
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, May 27, 2014. , 9780300185942.
External links
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Beijing Municipal Administration of Prisons
Provincial-level prison administrative bureaux in China
Politics of Beijing
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