The three prisons in Wuxi are Wuxi Prison, Dingshan Prison and Yixing Prison:
1. Wuxi Prison is located atNo. 12 1 Wuqiao West Road, Liangxi District, Wuxi City. It was built in 1950, with Taihu Lake and Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal in the south and Shanghai-Nanjing Expressway in the north. It's a high-security prison for felons.
2. Dingshan Prison is located in Sitiaoling, Shu Ren Village, Dingshu Town, Yixing City, Wuxi City, Jiangsu Province. Built in 195 1 year, covering an area of 344,666.67 square meters. The total construction area of the prison is about175,000 square meters, including 130 square meters in the supervision area and 45,000 square meters in the administrative area.
3. Yixing Prison is located in Furong Temple, Zhang Zhu Town, Yixing City, Wuxi City, Jiangsu Province. Founded in 195 1, formerly known as Jiangsu Fifth Labor Reform Detachment, 1996 was officially named Yixing Prison in Jiangsu Province. It is 0/8km away from Yixing City/kloc-and belongs to Jiangsu Provincial Department of Justice and Prison Administration.
The functions of prisons are as follows:
1, the punishment function of prison refers to the sum of the 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. The reform function of prison refers to the sum of the educational effects of reforming criminals' criminal thoughts and cultivating them to abide by the law according to the purpose of punishment;
3. The defense function of a prison refers to the sum of the effects of preventing criminals from committing crimes again by executing penalties, and at the same time, warning, deterring and educating other people who may commit crimes in society so that they will not embark on the road of crime;
4. Special prevention means that the prison deprives the prisoner of his personal freedom by executing the penalty, making him isolated from the society and losing the conditions for committing crimes again, so as to prevent him from committing crimes again during his sentence;
5. General prevention means that the prison punishes criminals to deter those who have not committed crimes and prevent them from committing crimes.
Article 2 of the Prison Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) is that prisons are the organs of the state to execute punishments.
According to the provisions of the Criminal Law and the Criminal Procedure Law, criminals sentenced to death with a two-year suspension of execution, life imprisonment or fixed-term imprisonment shall execute their sentences in prison.