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Probe into prison scandal
(China Daily)
Updated: 2008-06-04 14:37

Authorities in Guangdong province said yesterday they were investigating a suspected prison police recruitment scandal.

Li Xiao, deputy director of the Guangdong provincial department of justice information office, said the department was probing the case. The names of 146 candidates who had taken written exams and undergone interviews for police positions in Guangdong's prison system were posted on the Internet in spreadsheet form by a netizen last Wednesday. Sixty-one of them had a note attached after their names. The notes listed their relatives (including officials) or the names of those who had recommended them.