City plans more jobs for offenders

Thousands of offenders in local community correction programs will be provided with job opportunities under a cooperation agreement to be reached before February.

The joint venture involves the local municipal judicial bureau and Beijing's human resource and social security bureau.

"We will issue a document with the human resource and social security bureau to provide employment services for the offenders, " Lin Zhongshu, the vice-head of the community correction department in Beijing municipal judicial bureau told METRO on Tuesday.