ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a clear picture of the re-education programme as it must have been in its most highly developed form. In the foregoing accounts there have been references to study groups, tours, confessions, labour and other components of the re-education programme. In its organization and in its routine, the prison was geared to the re-education of its inmates. A central element of the programme, stressed as important by all the Peking and Fushun officials the readers interviewed and prominent in all the accounts by former prisoners, was the daily study session. It is evident than that, for the prisoners, there was a very carefully thought out form of organization, servicing a varied but coherent programme, administered in a subtle, consistent, disciplined and seemingly humane fashion by officers imbued with a perceptive understanding of the working of the mind.
