China has installed a newly-developed computer software in a prison
in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region to improve the management
of ethnic minority jails.
Information input into the database at the Gongcheng Yao Autonomous
County Jail about the 270 convicts housed there includes prisoner
profiles, family information, criminal record and court
information.
Jail authorities and police can refer to the database for quick,
accurate facts on the prisoners.
This is the first time a county-level prison has used an
intelligence management system in Guangxi, home to China's largest
ethnic minority Zhuang with a population of 16 million.
"Now we can obtain the detailed information of any prisoner only in
a moment. It is much more efficient compared with the manual work
in the past," said one jail guard.
In
addition, the system can store prisoners' fingerprints and
photos.
The new program is part of the national public security information
network.
(Xinhua News
Agency December 1, 2001)