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.
Prison is the product of the development of human society to a certain historical stage, which comes into being with the emergence of class and country. In the primitive society before mankind entered the class society, there was no class, no prison. During the primitive society clan commune, human society was based on blood relationship. People lived by hunting, the means of production were public, and the clan leader was in charge of the distribution of property.