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(10 Jan 1997) T/I: 10:05:27 China's Ministry of Justice has lifted a cloak of secrecy surrounding the state prison system for a rare look inside the Beijing Prison. The jail is home to 1,600 male convicts serving sentences of 10 years or less for crimes ranging from petty theft to leaking state secrets. The Beijing Prison, which is surrounded by walls topped with high voltage wire, is located amidst farm land in a suburb of Beijing, and is one of five correctional institutions in China which were recently honoured by the state as "model" prisons. Seen here for the first time by news reporters, the prison has recreational areas, karaoke entertainment and spacious auditoriums for special functions. Prisoners appear to live comfortably in bright, uncrowded cells, and study the works of Mao Tse Tung and Deng Xiao Ping. The prison has fish-filled aquariums, and a plant for each inmate. The prisoners have medical facilities, hot showers, meals, and receive regular visits from family members. Conditions at the prison are a direct result of China's model prison programme, which amounts to a strategy for improving the country's prisons. Managed by the Ministry of Justice, the reform programme aims to up-grade prison facilities, combining penalties with reform. For the past 40 years, convicted criminals in China have been subject to a system known as "reform through labour", under which convicts who are deemed healthy are put to work while they serve their time in prison. To prove the system's success, Beijing Prison officials claim only three per cent of the convicts who are released after completing their sentences become repeat offenders. SHOWS: BEIJING, CHINA, RECENT: Exterior of Beijing Prison with English sign at gate, watch tower with guard, electrified fence, security camera, exterior of building Prisoners singing karaoke, prisoners playing table tennis, plant and fish in cell aquarium, pan to prisoners playing Chinese checkers Cell Number 3 with bars and prisoners reading inside, long line of telephones in visitor's room, prisoner brings tea to his visiting mother and brother Prisoners exercising in yard, prisoners singing tribute to model soldier Li Feng (the song says follow his example and that of the Communist Party) Workshop in prison with prisoners making styrofoam lunch boxes and repairing jeeps, administrator teaching maths to prisoners, various of prisoners in class Prison guards march and exercise, prison gate closes 3.31 Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...