The Prison In China Where Inmates Allegedly Made Qantas Headphones

[third eye]

The Prison In China Where Inmates Allegedly Made Qantas Headphone Sounds Horrible | Business Insider Australia



Electrocution, beatings and suicide: These things are part of everyday life according to news reports on China’s Donggua Prison.

Danny Cancian, a New Zealand national, was realeased from the jail last year, and was quoted in an article in Today’s AFR which said Qantas, British Airways and Emirates headphones are made there.

In March this year, Cancian also gave an interview to Stuff.co.nz on four years spent locked up in Donggua, a stint during which he claims he didn’t see “the sun or the stars.”

“There were people hanging themselves every week. They had to take all the wire clothes lines out of the cells,” he said in the March article.

Based on his account, six days of every week prisoners would be marched at 5am to a factory next door to the prison — after a breakfast of rice water — where they would work until seven in the evening.

Lunch was rice and cabbage. At dinner Cancian said he sometimes lucked in to the odd fish ball.

“The prison used to buy all the old dead pigs and dead animals and stuff.”

The food sounds like the best part.

“If you do something wrong or say something wrong, they’ll come in and Tase you. I got Tasered in the mouth,” he said in the article, of his time spent in the Jail’s isolation cells.

Why was he in isolation? Fighting back when a guard punched him for wearing the wrong shoes, he said.

He also claims experimental drugs were tested on prisoners, needles were used multiple times in the ‘hospital’ and no one told him his mum had died of cancer four months before his release.

According to a report by human rights group the Dui Hua Foudation, Donggua is a specialised facility that holds all foreigners convicted by courts in China’s Guangdong province.

Cancian was sent up after, according to a judge, he used excessive force fighting back against five men who jumped him in a restaurant, and accidentally killed one of them.

Unsurprisingly, an article in China’s state-run People’s Daily had this to say about Donggua:

“After you enter Dongguan Prison, if you are not often shown where the place you are in by surrounding high walls and electrified nets, if it is not due to those prisoners in prison suits who often pass by, you will definitely regard the place as the campus of a university or as a garden-like residential area.”

 

[Minjitta]

Nothing come from China surprise me.

 

[SirHatesALot]

Hope situation improves from now on, on the other hand in our prisons people can shoot anybody as if they are playing GTA

 

[Kiss_of_the_Dragon]

Indians like digging China's dirty stories...go to look at the mirror, when your civilians are living in horrible conditions, you can imagine what will be the condition of Indian's prison.

 

[Fsjal]

So the earphones I used when flying Qantas were made from Chinese inmates...

Damn.

 

[PakPrinciples]

I personally don't think it's an all out bad idea.

On the pro side it relieves the financial burden on the tax paying public who are expected to foot the bill for the incarceration of people who broke the law and gives inmates real life work experience which they can use once they're free.

The only real con I can see is people being falsely arrested and incarcerated simply to supply cheap slave labor.

 

[Coltsfan]

Qantas, Emirates, Kmart Implicated in China Prison Labor Scandal

Qantas, Emirates, Kmart Implicated in China Prison Labor Scandal
Posted by Abe Sauer on June 27, 2013 11:38 AM


Suggestions of connections to worker suicide may be becoming the "good" China supply chain news for brands. Or at least that may be how some brands come to look at their China supply chains as more reports of Chinese prison labor has come to smear Qantas, Emirates and British *Airways as well as electronics maker Electrolux.
The new report follows similar allegations just two weeks ago after a letter pleading for help was found hidden inside a toy sold at Kmart. The very thought that brands now need to worry about certifying themselves "Chinese prison labor-free" is disheartening.
"This product produced by Unit 8, Department 2 Masanjia Labour Camp, Shenyang, Liaoning China" reads the letter stashed, ironically, inside a styrofoam gravestone Halloween decoration purchased by a mother in Oregon in 2011. “Sir: If you occasionally buy this product, please kindly resend this letter to the World Human Right Organization, thousands of people here who are under the persecution of the Chinese Community party Government with thank and remember you forever[sic]" reads the letter. Just this month, the letter's author came forward to speak to The New York Times, saying that prisoners—paid as little as $1.40 a month—were forced to make a wide range of products including some labeled "Made in Italy." Those products, the man reported, included those for export.
It was one thing—nearly one of those quirky "Oh, China!" stories—when it was revealed a couple years ago that Chinese prisoners were being forced to "play" online games like World of Warcraft to build up in-game credits that guards could then sell for real profit. It was almost a light compliment to the forced organ donation stories the West was used to hearing out of Chinese prisons.
Now, just two weeks after the smuggled letter story, a New Zealand man who was convicted of manslaughter and spent several years in a prison in south China has come forward with specific brands supplied by one prison labor detail. In an interview with The Australian Financial Review, Danny Cancian says he made electric components for brands such as Emerson and Electrolux. He and fellow inmates were also forced to assemble headsets for numerous airlines including British Airways, Emirates Air and Qantas. Another prisoner identified the latter as "the one with the Kangaroo as its logo." Chinese tech giant Huawei is also implicated.
In early 2013, China hinted that it would begin to disband its network of prison labor, a system that sees inmates often "sold" to other labor camps in need of ramping up production capabilities. But suggestions about dismantling the system disappeared from China's state press almost as hastily as it had appeared. While the labor camps are used for manufacturing production, their primary goal has fundamentally been social re-education.
Qantas told the Review that it was "concerned by these allegations" and suspended dealings with the supplier, a Vietnamese middle man.
Supply chains in China rarely consist of a single link. What might be happening with the end manufacturer could be removed from the final buyer by a number of middle parties. As long as the first link is telling the next one that all manufacturing is on the up and up, no one's the wiser. In this very instance, Qantas insists this was the case, telling the Review that its supplier—Airphonics—had provided "written assurances there was no forced labor in any part of the supply chain." Mostly unrelated, Qantas has of late been courting Chinese airlines that fancy a stake in the carrier.

 

[third eye]

I personally don't think it's an all out bad idea.

On the pro side it relieves the financial burden on the tax paying public who are expected to foot the bill for the incarceration of people who broke the law and gives inmates real life work experience which they can use once they're free.

The only real con I can see is people being falsely arrested and incarcerated simply to supply cheap slave labor

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Which is a very high probability.

 

[cnleio]

So the earphones I used when flying Qantas were made from Chinese inmates...

Damn.

Possible ... LOL glad to see some foreign news agency to report China prison situations. Most of my relatives r policemen who worked in prisons of JiangXi province and i ever spent 10-year living around the wall of prison, i guess there's no other guys can understand more than me about China prison.

The prison in China request inmates to reform (criminals) their evils through labours, it means inmates need to work jobs in prison. Usually these inmates were considered as free labors for the prison, the prison in China is a perfect production factory. The prison official will connect with other businessmen outside, they will encourage China businessmen to invest their prisons to hire their prison factory, after signed agreement with prison official these businessmen will carry their assembly lines and several skilled workers( the headman will teach prisoner how to work) into China prison.

The inmates r free labors in China prisons, yes they r. Only the work is these inmates need to do everyday when living in the prison, usually inmates worked 8-10 hours per day. They produced headphone, clothes, trousers, Christmas lights, greeting cards, umbrella,bags,artware, even bus etc (my hometown prison they manufactured middle bus, two car production lines in the prison). Some these goods produced by China prison even export to West country.


If u have any question about China prison, i can answer it coz i know China prison and inmates, ever visited my hometown prison as a local visitor.

 

[Okemos]

I have no problem with employing prisoners for free to reimburse prison costs ,etc. The real question is how the profits are shared, are they really going to the state coffer or will they be just pocketed by prison officials?

It's better to have them fully employed learning new skills and to prepare for outside life, than to just let them sit and stand around all day long.

 

[Hellraiser007]

The Horrible thing is these inmates are pushed forcefully into prison for silly reasons like demanding human rights, opposing CCP's in human policies.

 

[cnleio]

The Horrible thing is these inmates are pushed forcefully into prison for silly reasons like demanding human rights, opposing CCP's in human policies.

Most r criminals in China prison. Less talk human rights in the jail.

 

[born]

Not a bad idea at all ... In my state. the central jail inmates runs a canteen . "chapati" and chicken stew from the jail canteen was an instant hit . Even better they costs really less just Rs 20 or something . The demand was so high the canteen has to upgrade to "chapati" making machines.

 

[Kyusuibu Honbu]

Impressive!

 

[OrionHunter]

Electrocution, beatings and suicide: These things are part of everyday life according to news reports on China’s Donggua Prison.

Based on his account, six days of every week prisoners would be marched at 5am to a factory next door to the prison — after a breakfast of rice water — where they would work until seven in the evening. Lunch was rice and cabbage. At dinner Cancian said he sometimes lucked in to the odd fish ball.

“The prison used to buy all the old dead pigs and dead animals and stuff.”

Ah! The Great Han Dynasty! Bravo!!

All glitter on the outside, muck inside! I like the way the Hans think of themselves as a supah powah! Oh yeah!