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Dongguan Prison (Chinese: 东莞监狱) is located in the Shilong area of Dongguan, Guangdong, China.

Background

Dongguan Prison (Chinese: 东莞监狱) is located in the Shilong area of Dongguan, Guangdong, China.

Source: Wikipedia article lead, CC-BY-SA.

Capacity

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Current population

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Occupancy

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Year opened

1988

Operational

Figures from official sources · verified 6 Jul 2026 · methodology

Facility profile

Population held

Mixed/unknown

Opened

1988

Region

Guangdong

Security level

—

Death-row facility

No

Conditions

Named as a detention venue in 2 political/religious-prisoner cases documented by the Dui Hua Foundation's Prisoner Updates series (2023–Q3 2019). 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

Official site

Conditions Risk Score

Derived signal — not a judgement. How it's calculated

0/100
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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42%

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APA
World Prisons. (2026). Dongguan Prison. Retrieved October 21, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/dongguan-prison
Chicago
"Dongguan Prison." World Prisons. Accessed October 21, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/dongguan-prison.
BibTeX
@misc{worldprisons-dongguan-prison,
  author = {{World Prisons}},
  title = {Dongguan Prison},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://worldprisons.com/prisons/dongguan-prison},
  urldate = {2026-10-21}
}