Chinese Prisons making inmates farm gold

This is bull sh'it.


>Let's let prisoners play online games
>We're not ruining the games enough for the young kids that play games, so let's give the power to ruin the day of young kids everywhere to murderers.

Except that this is China, where many prisoners probably aren't real convicts. The guy in the topic was imprisoned for '"illegally petitioning" the central government about corruption in his hometown'. It's a communist country. These could potentially be people who just reported officials powerful enough to jail them instead of actually ceasing their corrupt behaviour.

I have no idea how their imprisonment system works over there, but I doubt that they'd let murderers do this kind of thing. More likely a new way to earn money off of safe but potentially unemployed inmates.