Luoyang City No. 4 Prison is the fourth prison in Henan Province and the only prison in western Henan that holds and rehabilitates serious criminals.
Prison in a broad sense refers to a place where all prisoners are held, including prisons, jails, detention centers, etc. A prison in a narrow sense refers to a place where criminals who are sentenced to death with a two-year suspension of execution, life imprisonment, or life imprisonment in accordance with the provisions of the Criminal Law and the Criminal Procedure Law are executed in prison. We should implement the principles of combining punishment with reform, education and labor to transform criminals into law-abiding citizens. The competent department of prisons is the Prison Service, and the highest administrative agency is the Ministry of Justice.
The functions of prison are as follows:
1. The punitive function of prison means that the state places the body and mind of sentenced persons under punishing conditions, restricts their mental and material life, and makes them The sum of the psychological pain suffered;
2. The reforming function of prison refers to the sum of the educational function of prison to change the criminal psychology of criminals and train criminals to become law-abiding citizens according to the purpose of punishment;
3. The defensive function of prison refers to the function of prison to prevent criminals from committing crimes again through the execution of punishments, and at the same time to warn, deter and educate other people in society who may commit crimes so that they will not embark on the path of crime. Total;
4. Special prevention means that the prison implements punishment on criminals, deprives them of their personal freedom, isolates them from society, and loses the conditions for re-offending, so as to prevent re-offending during their sentence;
5. General prevention means that prisons impose penalties on criminals, deprive them of their personal freedom, isolate them from society, and lose the conditions for re-offending, so as to prevent re-offending during their sentence;
6 , Special prevention means that the prison implements punishment on criminals, deprives them of their personal freedom, isolates them from society, and loses the conditions for re-offending, so as to prevent re-offending during their sentence. General prevention means that prisons punish criminals to deter criminals who have not yet committed crimes and prevent them from committing crimes.
Article 2 of the "Prison Law of the People's Republic of China"***, the national prison is the national penalty execution organ.
According to the provisions of the Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure Law, criminals who are sentenced to death with a two-year suspension of execution, life imprisonment, or fixed-term imprisonment shall execute their sentences in prison. Article 3 Prisons shall implement the principles of combining punishment and reform, education and labor for criminals, so as to transform criminals into law-abiding citizens.