There is currently only one national-level prison in Wuwei City, called "Wuwei Prison", located 3 meters west of the Nongji Road intersection in Liangzhou District, Wuwei City.
Prison, in a broad sense, refers to a place where all prisoners are held, including prisons, jails, detention centers, etc.; in a narrow sense, it refers to a suspended death sentence in accordance with the provisions of the Criminal Law and the Criminal Procedure Law. The prison is the place where criminals serving sentences of two years, life imprisonment, or life imprisonment are executed by the prison. The competent department of prisons is the Prison Service, and the highest administrative agency is the Ministry of Justice.
1 Function
The punitive function of prison refers to the psychological pain effect caused by the state placing the body and mind of the sentenced person under punishing conditions and restricting his mental and material life. sum.
The reform function of prison refers to the sum of the educational effects of prison on changing the criminal psychology of criminals and cultivating them to obey the law based on the purpose of punishment.
The defensive function of the prison refers to the prison's execution of punishments on criminals to prevent them from committing crimes again, and at the same time, it warns, deters and educates other people in society who may commit crimes so that they will not embark on the path of crime. The sum of the effects.
Special prevention means that prisons execute sentences on criminals, deprive them of their personal freedom, isolate them from society, and deprive them of the conditions for re-offending, thereby preventing criminals from re-offending while serving their sentences. General prevention means that prisons punish criminals to deter those who have not committed crimes and prevent them from committing crimes.
2 General attributes
Prisons have distinct class characteristics. The class nature of prison is the fundamental attribute of prison.
Prison is severely punitive. Prisons in any country have the function of suppressing resistance and sabotage activities of hostile classes and hostile forces, combating crimes, and punishing crimes. Punishment is one of the inherent attributes of punishment and one of the tools used by the dictatorship to safeguard the interests of the class and the ruling order.
3 History of production
Penalty is the product of the development of human society to a certain historical stage. It comes into being with the emergence of classes and countries. In the primitive social period before humans entered class society, there were no classes and no prisons. In the clan commune period of primitive society, human society was based on blood relations, people made a living by hunting, the means of production were publicly owned, and the clan leader was in charge of property distribution.
However, due to the low level of productivity, people's survival is difficult to guarantee. With no form of state organization, conflicts between people could only be resolved through customary bloody revenge. In the late primitive society, due to the development of productivity, people began to form groups and use ground or forged stone tools for hunting, resulting in a surplus of products.