Incarceration of women
Within the last decade, the rate of incarceration for women in China has increased by 46%. Women make up only 6% of the total population of individuals in prison within the country. While it is difficult to correctly evaluate the statistic regarding the total number of women incarcerated due to the underreporting of these cases, China is on track to imprison more women than the United States.
List of re-education through labor camps in China
Re-education through labor (RTL; in Chinese, "laodong jiaoyang" 劳动教养, abbreviated láojiào 劳教) is a system of administrative detentions in the People's Republic of China. The estimated number of detainees in re-education through labor camps is anywhere from 300,000 ("China Labor Bulletin", 2007) to 2 million (Laogai Research Foundation, 2006). There are at least 310 camps in China ("China Daily", 2007).