Community correction to be tried nationwide

The central government is promoting an experimental community correction program nationwide to keep minor lawbreakers from being jailed.

"Community correction, a non-imprisonment penalty enforcement system, fits China," reads a circular on community correction jointly issued on Wednesday by the Supreme People's Court (SPC), Supreme People's Procuratorate, the Ministry of Public Security and the Ministry of Justice.

The circular also calls for further standardizing and legalizing the practice.