This is no surprise, as penal reformers have long argued that short prison sentences – during which prisoners receive little resettlement help – are ineffective, yet every year nearly 60,000 people are sentenced to prison for less than 12 months.
Four out of the five researchers interviewed by Science say that they did not receive a resettlement subsidy.
Under China's constitution and other property laws, expropriation of urban land is permitted only if it is for the purpose of supporting the "public interest," and those being evicted are supposed to receive compensation, resettlement, and protection of one's living conditions.
All 220 departing MPs received the resettlement grants to pay to wind up their offices and adjust to non-parliamentary life.
"It also includes receiving through resettlement, humanitarian admission, family reunification or similar mechanisms, refugees who are today in the neighbouring countries but who can find a solution outside the region".
But he hadn't yet received his resettlement subsidy from the Leading Talent award, and he says they needed the money.
For example, Geoff Gadd, a geomicrobiologist at the University of Dundee in the United Kingdom, who has a part-time award for work at the Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography in Urumqi, wrote Science that he has not received a resettlement subsidy or any information about the program in English.
They received no resettlement assistance (years later, they received small amounts of compensation).
Their owners were then deported to the western Indian Ocean islands of Mauritius and the Seychelles, 1,200 miles from their homeland, where they received no resettlement assistance.
