In the Spring 2010 issue of Dialogue, the cover story explores medical parole in China, the easiest way—but perhaps also the most controversial—that Chinese detainees can be granted early release from prison. It was once a favored method for China to, in effect, “exile” high-profile political prisoners, including those without life-threatening medical conditions. But as Beijing has toughened domestic controls, medical parole has not been used to free a political prisoner in more than five years. As a result, many such prisoners, like dissident Hu Jia, continue to suffer from serious diseases behind bars.
The second story in this issue examines the crisis of aging and sickness in US prisons. As medical costs rise and the prison population ages, policy-makers are responding to the challenge with a host of new programs, from geriatric release to prison hospice care.
The prisoner and research section features discussion and analysis of “adjudication committees,” a judicial institution that only exists in China. Responses about detainees in Guangdong and Xinjiang disclose an unusual presentation of data on ESS prisoners that Dui Hua received from one of its Chinese interlocutors.
News About Dui Hua runs down Executive Director John Kamm’s most recent advocacy missions. The section also summarizes an event Dui Hua held for its Juvenile Justice Delegation, visiting Qingdao and Beijing in May, and the foundation’s submission for the first UN Universal Periodic Review of the United States, to occur in Geneva this November.
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