Payouts for inmates ensured

Police and prison officials must compensate the families of detainees who die or are severely injured, or provide proof that the department was not involved, according to a draft amendment to the Law on State Compensation.

The draft, which is under its second review at the 9th session of the Standing Committee of the 11th National People's Congress (NPC), said judicial departments must show the families they were not involved in the death or loss of that person's legal transaction.

Ying Songnian, president of China Administrative Law Research Society, said a person who was in jail is incapable of protecting his or herself.