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Chaohu Prison is a prison in Chaohu, Anhui, China. It was established in 1959. It is the province's 3rd largest prison currently employing over 1200 guards and other employees. Most of the inmates here are sentenced to life or serving commuted death sentences. The factory was established in 1959 and is a national key enterprise in the machinery industry. It is also a special enterprise designated by the Ministry of Railways to produce railway parts. Products made here are used in all railway engineering...

Background

Chaohu Prison is a prison in Chaohu, Anhui, China. It was established in 1959. It is the province's 3rd largest prison currently employing over 1200 guards and other employees. Most of the inmates here are sentenced to life or serving commuted death sentences. The factory was established in 1959 and is a national key enterprise in the machinery industry.

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Current population

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Occupancy

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Year opened

1959

Operational

Figures from official sources · verified 6 Jul 2026 · methodology

Facility profile

Operator

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Population held

Mixed/unknown

Opened

1959

Region

Anhui

Security level

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Death-row facility

No

Conditions

Named as a detention venue in 4 political/religious-prisoner cases documented by the Dui Hua Foundation's Prisoner Updates series (2025). No individual case details are stored here in line with detainee-privacy discipline. (per Dui Hua Foundation Political Prisoner DB)

Visiting

No visiting information available.

Mailing

No mailing information available.

Practical info

Contact the operator's website for inmate-specific procedures.

Known issues

No major issues documented in our database.

Contact & address

No public contact details available.

Conditions Risk Score

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Low concern0/100
Overcrowding
0/30
Oversight reports
0/30
Structural flags
0/15
Death signals
0/15
Conditions text
0/10

This facility scores 0. The national average across 1,005 scored China facilities is 3 — 3 points below national average.

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28%

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World Prisons. (2026). Chaohu Prison. Retrieved October 23, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/chaohu-prison
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"Chaohu Prison." World Prisons. Accessed October 23, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/chaohu-prison.
BibTeX
@misc{worldprisons-chaohu-prison,
  author = {{World Prisons}},
  title = {Chaohu Prison},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://worldprisons.com/prisons/chaohu-prison},
  urldate = {2026-10-23}
}