"Many well intentioned folks will be going just to get oriented!"

Good point - no point inspoiling their fun with the awkward truth of torture and oppression. If this were Muslims, Jews or Christians being herded into gulags there'd be another world war. Tibetans and dissidents? Who gives a fuck? Not us - it's the 100 metre hurdles!

Just to get you in the mood, here are some sites to get you acquainted with some of subtler aspects of the Chinese judcial system:

The mainstays of this system are the Chinese gulags, or Laogai:

www.laogai.org

A warning with this one - some of these pictures are not pretty, but then if you think it's OK to watch the beach vollyball you might want to consider the cost paid by those with the guts to stand up to butality and injustice, or those millions of innocent Chinese languising in concentration camps:

Google image search for 'Laogai'

This site has a comprehensive list of the known information of Laogai by provice:

Laogai Research Foundation

Many of these camps are using forced labour to produce products destined for markets in the west.