At the high-security camps, PPC No. 15, Yodok, and No. 18, Pukchang, prisoners, even after their detention at the PPC, prisoners are expected to continue their obligations as members of organizations to which they belonged prior to arrest, such as the Employment Union, Youth Working Union or the Workers’ Party. In the maximum-security camps, however, prisoners are not required to continue their duties as members of such organizations because these prisoners are deprived of their rights as citizens. “There is a company commander under the control of the SSA officer in the sector of single offenders and one work unit chief and many sub-division work unit chiefs under him in the family sector. There is a system of five prisoners per unit to watch each other to prevent escape. Everyone is watching everyone else. This is all done in secret. We are often called to the SSA officer to give him information in writing about other prisoners. There is no particular benefit for doing this. This is very hard. After you have come home (after the day’s work), you are not authorized to walk around. You cannot visit your neighbors. In fact, even though no one is watching us, no one moves around. It would be a real disaster if anyone should find out that you were moving around at night. We had a meeting for checking routine activities of prisoners .I remember having a problem due to reading underneath a weak lamp light. This meeting is held according to sub-divisions of a work unit. There were 11 Party members and we had a separate meeting for Party members only. Prisoners holding Party certificate were supervising other prisoners. They all came from different regions. I don’t know all the locations they came from.” (A05, former prisoner from Ipsok-ni, PPC No. 15, 1976~1980) “The Control Committee meetings were attended by the company commander, junior level party secretaries and work unit chiefs. Junior level party secretaries are those who had previous experience in supervising others before their arrest. Inventory clerks or warehouse supervisors were also included. They were prisoners themselves but were supervising other prisoners. Prisoners were routinely disciplined through daily conduct-checking meetings at the office of the Control Committee every 10 days as well as once a month. If normal discipline didn’t work, prisoners were sent to a punishment chamber, a facility within the camp. The discipline meetings are conducted every 10 days by a junior organizational committee chairman (This organizational structure in the camp reflected the same system of organizations outside society such as Party cell, Women’s Union, Employment Union and Young Workers Union). The monthly meeting is conducted by an SSA officer.” (A06, former prisoner from Sorimchon, Camp No. 15, 2003~2006) 85