NP prison labor in PRC

[Doug Millison]

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/22/world/22BEIJ.html

excerpt:
Chinese news reports on the accident, part of a series of mine disasters in
this country, have not mentioned that the victims were convicts, and the
government denies the existence of forced labor. But officials in Sichuan
Province, where the flooded mine is situated, told Reuters that the mine was
operated by a prison near the town of Yibin and that the trapped miners were
all "convicted criminals."