"Detention centers should no longer remain under police control."


(China Daily)
Updated: 2010-03-05 07:14
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"Detention centers should no longer remain under police control."

Li Yuefeng, a CPPCC member and procurator in Chongqing, proposed an amendment to the 1990 regulation about detention centers. Procurators, instead of the police, should manage detention centers, he suggested. Loopholes in management have led to a number of custody deaths that have not been well explained, he said.