China · Guangdong
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This is a list of prisons and detention centres within the Guangdong province of China.
Capacity
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Current population
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Occupancy
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Year opened
1951
Operational
Figures from official sources · verified 6 Jul 2026 · methodology
Operator
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Population held
Mixed/unknown
Opened
1951
Region
Guangdong
Security level
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Death-row facility
No
Named as a detention venue in 3 political/religious-prisoner cases documented by the Dui Hua Foundation's Prisoner Updates series (2023–Q4 2020). No individual case details are stored here in line with detainee-privacy discipline. (per Dui Hua Foundation Political Prisoner DB)
No visiting information available.
No mailing information available.
Contact the operator's website for inmate-specific procedures.
No major issues documented in our database.
Wang Bingzhang (Chinese: çç³ç« ; pinyin: Wáng BÇngzhÄng; born December 30, 1947) is a Chinese human rights activist and founder of two Chinese pro-democracy movements.
Source: Wikidata + Wikipedia.
No public contact details available.
Derived signal — not a judgement. How it's calculated
This facility scores 0. The national average across 1,005 scored China facilities is 3 — 3 points below national average.
Same country, matched on type + security level where possible.
How many of our profile fields are populated. We surface this so families and researchers know the limits.
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World Prisons. (2026). Shaoguan Prison. Retrieved July 23, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/shaoguan-prison
"Shaoguan Prison." World Prisons. Accessed July 23, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/shaoguan-prison.
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author = {{World Prisons}},
title = {Shaoguan Prison},
year = {2026},
url = {https://worldprisons.com/prisons/shaoguan-prison},
urldate = {2026-07-23}
}