Detention center investigated after 2 deaths and ill treatment

The management of a Hebei detention center is being investigated after two prisoners died and another was severely injured by a jailhouse bully.

The provincial-level investigation was launched after the family of the bullied man went to authorities to complain about the way he had been treated at the Zanhuang detention center.

Su Zhengjun, of Hebei province public security bureau, said two mysterious deaths happened at the center in 2007.