The photo above shows the gate of a private prison located on the east side of the Veneer Factory - Raw Wood Material Processing Plant in Yakeshi City, Inner Mongolia. There are two boards hung on the gate (one board in Chinese characters and another in Mongolian) reading, "The Daxinganling District Legal System Education Base in Inner Mongolia." The Raw Wood Material Processing Plant used to be the largest plant of its kind in Asia and has a history of several dozen years. It went broke, however, in the 1990s and many workers were laid off.
What's surprising is that in the autumn of 2003, the "610 Office" spent a large amount of money renovating the plant and turning it into a private prison. A two-meter high wall was set up around the plant with a gate that was tightly closed. One can often hear dogs barking inside. The landscaping outside makes it hard for people to imagine it is in fact a place where innocent people are tortured and killed.