Convicts go back to jail after terms illegally cut

SPP details success of last year's effort to reverse unlawful changes in prison sentences

Thousands of people who had their prison sentences commuted illegally were sent back to prison last year, the Supreme People's Procuratorate said on Thursday.

Those who returned - 2,244 of them - were mostly wealthy people and corrupt officials, according to the SPP, and included 121 ex-officials at bureau-level. Among them were Hu Jianxue, former Party chief of Tai'an, in Shandong province, and Ding Zhenwu, former director of the public affairs bureau in Guangzhou, Guangdong province.