In the number 18 camp, it's all a mining area. So anyone, no matter how high an education they've received in the past, just goes and works in the mines. Everyone goes and works in the mines. So everyone usually ends up with some sort of lung disease, and if this lung disease gets serious you're taken out of the mines and taken to work on construction sites or maybe building the houses of officials or repairing the houses of officials.
In terms of a disregard for our dignity, it's the same for everyone.
As for rations, if you work in the mines you actually get a bit more in terms of rations, and people who don't work in the mines maybe receive about half of what people who work in the mines receive.
As for the security guards and the safety guards, in my case, I spent 20 years in that prison without any idea of what I had done wrong to be put in that prison. But even if you just ask, why am I here, that is regarded as a violation of the regulations and it is regarded as disobedience. So everyone just got beaten and in severe cases they would get shot to death. So you really can't ask why you're there in the first place, and it was the same for everyone in that matter. Beatings and punishments without any reason, everyone just has to suffer that.
The officials and the administrative officials in those camps--sometimes we had very young women prisoners who came into the camps, and these officials would of course sexually harass and assault these young ladies. If this was revealed to other people, that young lady would be sent to an even tougher labour camp within that campus. So once again, there was no authority at all of any prisoner brought into the camp. We just had to obey the orders of the officials there.