Inmates go online to eat, shop
By Li Qian |
June 16, 2012, Saturday
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BEIJING became China's first city to allow prisoners to order meals, go shopping and make medical appointments online.
Prisoners who behave well are rewarded with chances to order meals through the prison's online system and invite relatives to enjoy the food together just like holding a family dinner.
They can also make online appointments to see the prison doctors and buy daily goods - including food, clothes and stationery - from the prisons' online stores, although the amounts are limited, the Beijing Youth Daily reported.
Prisoners' shopping histories are recorded, and they pay with online accounts.
The Beijing Prison Management Bureau said the touch screens are located in the activity hall and aisles, and prisoners can use them after getting approval. The new practice was launched on Wednesday.
"The online meal orders save time and energy, which spare more time for me to have chats with my family members when they come to see me," a prisoner surnamed Wu told the paper.
A prisoner surnamed Wang said: "We can catch up with the trend and experience of outside life since the prison opened the online platform. Our visions are broadened and we won't feel strange once we are released."
The bureau said it introduced the online ordering system in an attempt to strengthen prisoners' connections to social life and protect their basic rights.
The bureau also launched remote video interviews between prisoners and their relatives in several jails on Thursday, with plans to spread it to the whole city after three months, the Legal Daily reported.
Prisoners who behave well are rewarded with chances to order meals through the prison's online system and invite relatives to enjoy the food together just like holding a family dinner.
They can also make online appointments to see the prison doctors and buy daily goods - including food, clothes and stationery - from the prisons' online stores, although the amounts are limited, the Beijing Youth Daily reported.
Prisoners' shopping histories are recorded, and they pay with online accounts.
The Beijing Prison Management Bureau said the touch screens are located in the activity hall and aisles, and prisoners can use them after getting approval. The new practice was launched on Wednesday.
"The online meal orders save time and energy, which spare more time for me to have chats with my family members when they come to see me," a prisoner surnamed Wu told the paper.
A prisoner surnamed Wang said: "We can catch up with the trend and experience of outside life since the prison opened the online platform. Our visions are broadened and we won't feel strange once we are released."
The bureau said it introduced the online ordering system in an attempt to strengthen prisoners' connections to social life and protect their basic rights.
The bureau also launched remote video interviews between prisoners and their relatives in several jails on Thursday, with plans to spread it to the whole city after three months, the Legal Daily reported.
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