劳动教养是我国特有的以维护社会治安为目的，对有轻微违法犯罪行为尚不够刑事处罚的人，实行强制教育改造的一项惩戒制度。这项制度实施四十多年来，通过劳动教养机关对被劳动教养的人实行教育、感化、挽救，使那些处于犯罪边缘的人，避免继续违法和陷入犯罪的泥潭，并进而使 Reeducation through labor is a unique system of disciplinary reform in China that complies with the principle of compulsory education for the purpose of safeguarding public order in the community and for people who have not committed enough criminal penalties for minor crimes. Over the past 40 years since the implementation of this system, those reeducation-through-labor camps have educated, probed and salvaged those who have reeducated them so that those on the verge of criminality will not continue to violate the law and fall into the quagmire of crime,