 Though most reports describe the conditions of re @-@ education camps as " brutal , " there are some claims of prisoners being well @-@ treated . For example , when he was released from a three @-@ year re @-@ education sentence in 1999 , dissident Liu Xiaobo said that he had been treated very mildly , that he had been allowed to spend time reading , and that the conditions had been " pretty good . " 
