"In China, they want you to become [a] new socialist person, and that's the purpose of the labor camps," says Harry Wu, a survivor of the prison system known as "Laogai," which means "reform through labor." <br /> <br />The Tragic History of China's Secret Labor Camps (2015) "When the Communist Party of China <br /> <br />came to power in 1956, Mao invited Soviet state experts into the country to develop a Gulag-style prison network to suppress 'counter revolutionaries' and torture political opposition
