GUANGZHOU, Sept. 24 -- South China's Guangdong Province plans to publish informationabout prison inmates online in a bid to make prison management more transparent, localauthorities said Wednesday.
According to the provincial prison administration bureau, Guangdong will publishinformation related to commuting sentences and parole for more than 130,000 prisoninmates online by the year end.
Relatives of the prisoners can obtain information on how well they do, how much pocketmoney they spend and their health conditions after searching on the special query system.
The prison of Jieyang City in Guangdong piloted this program in April and it's the first of itskind in China.
China has long been criticized over its opaque prison system and law enforcement process.
"This new program will make the process of managing prison affairs more transparent andopen to public supervision," said Liu Fang, head of the bureau.
