ALITTLE OVER 20 years ago, when he was still a teenager, Lin Guangpeng tried heroin that his friends had brought to a party near his home in the south-western province of Yunnan. Soon addicted, Mr Lin-not his real name-spent many of the subsequent years behind bars, including several long stretches in detention centres for drug users. He says wardens in these "compulsory isolation detoxification" facilities put him to work in prison factories. Such places are meant to heal your body, he says (inmates are pictured exercising). But they "damage your soul".
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