 The inmates were required to accept the notion that their own family members had various criminal and grotesque features; they were required to author false autobiographies, comprising accounts of deviant behavior.In addition to physical violence, inmates subject to "reeducation" were supposed to work for exhausting periods doing humiliating chores - for instance, cleaning the floor with a rag clenched between the teeth.Inmates were malnourished and kept in degrading and unsanitary conditions.