http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-10/27/content_2145411.htm
"China will extend its two-year-old community rehabilitation projects from 6 pilot provinces to 18 this year, in an effort to cut the prison population.
'The projects help us change ideas from watching these people to correcting and helping them,' said Wang Jue, an official with the Ministry of Justice, Wednesday.
Such services are imposed on five types of offenders: people under surveillance, probation, parole, temporary service out of prison and those released but deprived of political rights.
Despite the best intentions, Wang said that community correction, long common in Western countries, is struggling to integrate with the existing legal system in China. "
