Article 3 of the Prison Law A prison shall implement the principle of combining punishment with reform and combining education with labor, and transform criminals into law-abiding citizens. Article 4 A prison shall supervise prisoners according to law, organize prisoners to engage in productive labor according to the needs of reforming prisoners, and educate prisoners in ideology, culture and technology. Article 69: Criminals who have the ability to work must take part in labor. Article 70 A prison shall, according to the individual circumstances of a prisoner, reasonably organize labor, so that he can correct bad habits, develop working habits, learn production skills, and create conditions for employment after his release from prison.
Prison, in a broad sense, refers to places where all prisoners are held, including prisons, detention centers and detention centers. In a narrow sense, it refers to a prison that carries out punishment on criminals sentenced to death with a two-year suspension, life imprisonment or fixed-term imprisonment according to the provisions of the Criminal Law and the Criminal Procedure Law. The competent department of a prison is the Prison Administration, and the highest administrative department is the Ministry of Justice.