What is the function of prison?

1, penalty function

It refers to the sum total of psychological pain effects caused by the state putting the criminal's body and mind under the condition of punishment and restricting his spiritual and material life.

2. Conversion function

It refers to the sum total of the educational effects of changing criminals' criminal thoughts and cultivating them to abide by the law according to the purpose of punishment.

3. Defense function

It refers to the sum of the effects that prisons prevent criminals from committing crimes again by executing penalties, and at the same time warn, deter and educate other people who may commit crimes in society so that they will not embark on the road of crime.

4. Special prevention

It means that prisons deprive criminals of their personal freedom by executing penalties, so that they are isolated from society and lose the conditions for committing crimes again, so as to prevent them from committing crimes again during their sentences.

5. General prevention

It refers to the punishment of criminals by prisons to deter people who have not committed crimes and prevent them from committing crimes.

The meaning of prison:

A prison in a broad sense refers to a place where all prisoners are held, including prisons, detention centers and detention centers.

In a narrow sense, a prison refers to a criminal who is sentenced to death with a two-year suspension of execution, life imprisonment or fixed-term imprisonment in accordance with the provisions of the Criminal Law and the Criminal Procedure Law.

The principle of combining punishment with reform and combining education with labor is applied to criminals, and criminals are transformed into law-abiding citizens.

The competent department of a prison is the Prison Administration, and the highest administrative department is the Ministry of Justice.

Extended data:

The necessity of prison penalty function;

First, punishment is an important function of prison and the premise and foundation of implementing ideological education. Without penalty control, prisons would not exist and the function of penalty would not be realized. ?

Prison has assumed the function of punishment since its birth. Whether it is revenge, extinction and compensation in slave society, revenge and intimidation in feudal society, or correction and education in capitalist society, prisons can never get rid of the function of punishment.

Although the nature or attributes of socialist prisons are significantly different from those of prisons with exploitation system, the punishment function has not changed.

Second, ideological education is an important means to reform criminals, an important way to change criminals' thoughts, an important content of China prison work characteristics, and the essence of Mao Zedong's thoughts on reforming criminals.

As early as before the founding of New China, Comrade Mao Zedong pointed out: "As long as the reactionary classes and people do not rebel and make trouble after their regime is overthrown, they will be given land and work life, so that they can transform themselves through labor and become new people. We also do publicity and education work for them, and we do it with great care and sufficiency, just like we do for prisoners. "

After the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), Comrade Mao Zedong enriched and developed this thought. On the one hand, he advocated punishing all kinds of counter-revolutionaries and criminals engaged in sabotage activities according to law, on the other hand, he insisted on reforming them through labor, combining punishment control with ideological reform and political publicity and education, and trying to make them repent and turn over a new leaf. Comrade Mao Zedong clearly put forward that ideological education should be put in the first place.

Article 4 of the Regulations on Labor Reform in People's Republic of China (PRC) stipulates: "Labor reform organs shall implement the policy of combining punishment control with ideological reform and combining labor production with political education for all counter-revolutionary criminals and other criminals."

Third, penalty control and ideological education are two aspects of reforming criminals. Historical experience shows that ignoring any aspect will bring harm to prison work. The combination of penalty control and ideological education is one of the valuable experiences of successful prison work with China's characteristics, and it is also the theoretical cornerstone of Mao Zedong's idea of reforming criminals.

Fourth, we should strengthen the punishment function of prisons. Any knowledge or measures that dilute the punishment function of prisons may lead to the deviation of the development direction of prisons, make the society make wrong value judgments, and then affect social harmony and stability.

The most basic meaning of prison is punishment, which can be said to be the essence of prison. "The most direct purpose of the state to create prisons is to punish criminals and achieve other purposes through this function. If the prison does not have the punishment function, the prison will lose its innate nature and no longer become a prison. "

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