Visiting hours in Yangling prison

According to relevant regulations, criminals can meet their relatives (or guardians) once or twice a month for 30 minutes each time. If it is necessary to extend the time under special circumstances, it must be approved by the competent business department, but the longest time shall not exceed 1 hour. This classification is regarded as

The meeting time will be extended to one hour for those who have made significant meritorious service or have been rated as provincial reform activists.

Extended data:

The role of the prison:

1, penalty function

It refers to the sum total of psychological pain effects caused by the state putting the criminal's body and mind under the condition of punishment and restricting his spiritual and material life.

2. Conversion function

It refers to the sum total of the educational effects of changing criminals' criminal thoughts and cultivating them to abide by the law according to the purpose of punishment.

3. Defense function

It refers to the sum of the effects that prisons prevent criminals from committing crimes again by executing penalties, and at the same time warn, deter and educate other people who may commit crimes in society so that they will not embark on the road of crime.

4. Special prevention

It means that prisons deprive criminals of their personal freedom by executing penalties, so that they are isolated from society and lose the conditions for committing crimes again, so as to prevent them from committing crimes again during their sentences.

5. General prevention

It refers to the punishment of criminals by prisons to deter people who have not committed crimes and prevent them from committing crimes.

The meaning of prison:

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.

The principle of combining punishment with reform and combining education with labor is applied to criminals, and criminals are transformed into law-abiding citizens.

The competent department of a prison is the Prison Administration, and the highest administrative department is the Ministry of Justice.

First, punishment is an important function of prison and the premise and foundation of implementing ideological education. Without penalty control, prisons would not exist and the function of penalty would not be realized.

Prison has assumed the function of punishment since its birth. Whether it is revenge, extinction and compensation in slave society, revenge and intimidation in feudal society, or correction and education in capitalist society, prisons can never get rid of the function of punishment.

Although the nature or attributes of socialist prisons are significantly different from those of prisons with exploitation system, the punishment function has not changed.