Yongchuan Prison in Chongqing is a prison for supervising criminal offences. Prisons are responsible for managing criminal suspects and criminals sentenced to imprisonment, ensuring their safety and welfare, and at the same time supervising their execution of punishment according to regulations. According to the different situations of criminal suspects and criminals, prisons formulate different punishment and reform education programs to help them understand their mistakes, receive legal education, correct their mistakes and return to society.
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.