What is the procedure for visiting a prisoner?

Requirements for visiting prisons vary from place to place, so you need to check with the prison where you are located.

For example, visiting a friend serving time in prison. Visits to prisons must meet the following conditions:

Theme conditions:

According to Article 48 of the "Prison Law of the People's Republic of China", only relatives and guardians of criminals can exercise the right to visit prisons. But friends of criminals can also visit prisons, which is a common practice across the country, because visiting prisons can bring corresponding economic benefits to the prison.

Certificate conditions:

When visiting the prison, the prison is required to produce the following documents: 1. Identity documents (including ID card, temporary ID card, household register, household registration certificate, military officer ID, soldier ID, etc.), and 2. Relevant certificates issued by local street offices, neighborhood committees, and village committees. It is common practice not to require a second proof.

Time Condition:

This condition stipulates that the prison can only be visited on designated visiting days. But the general practice is that except for statutory holidays, visits can be made at other times.

Extended data:

Detention center visiting hours and requirements:

1. Unconvicted prisoners in the detention center are not allowed to visit the prison, nor are they allowed to meet with anyone other than lawyers. anyone.

2. Criminals sentenced to serve in a detention center can visit, but they may not visit more than three times in a month. Generally speaking, Saturdays and Sundays are not visiting hours.

Not everyone has the right to visit. Generally speaking, it is the criminal's close relatives or other closely related people. However, it is allowed to send things or money to prisoners from outside, but the things must be bought from a store under the detention center or the goods must be inspected before they can be sent. You can look up the phone number and ask about visiting hours.

Detention centers are institutions that hold criminal suspects who have been arrested and criminally detained in accordance with the law. For criminals who have been sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment, if the remaining term of the sentence is less than three months before delivery for execution, the detention center will execute the sentence on their behalf.

A criminal suspect shall be detained in a detention center with an arrest warrant, a criminal detention certificate issued by a public security agency or a national security agency at or above the county level, or a criminal detention certificate issued by a public security agency at or above the county level, a national security agency, a prison, or a labor reform agency. Proof of arresting, escorting, and temporarily detaining criminal suspects issued by institutions, people's courts, and people's procuratorates. If there is no such certificate, or if the records on the certificate are inconsistent with the actual situation, they will not be detained.

Reference materials:

Baidu Encyclopedia - Prison visit? Baidu Encyclopedia-Detention Center