Definition of "laogai" [laogai]

• The use of prison labor and prison farms in the People's Republic of China. (noun)

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• "In 1990, China abandoned the term laogai and labeled the detention facilities as "prisons" instead, but Wu maintained that evidence gathered by his foundation suggested that forced labor was "as much a part of its prison system today as it ever was.""
• "In any event, it is simply perverse for a president to go to a country with a gulag - in China, it's called "laogai" - and give no signal whatsoever that he knows it: that he knows he is in a country with a gulag."
• "Harry Wu (吳弘達), who labored in 12 different camps in China from 1960 to 1979, set up the museum in memory of the millions who he said perished within the camps, known as laogai or reform-through-labor camps."