Convicts for Export
China has devised a novel strategy to relieve pressure on its overcrowded prisons: employ convicts as laborers on overseas projects. The practice has exposed another facet of China’s egregious human-rights record, which, when it comes to Chinese overseas companies’ overseas, includes the government’s failure to enforce its own regulations.
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NEW DELHI – China has devised a novel strategy to relieve pressure on its overcrowded prisons: employ convicts as laborers on overseas projects in the developing world. The practice has exposed another facet of China’s egregious human-rights record, which, when it comes to the overseas operations of Chinese companies, includes the government’s failure to enforce its own regulations.