There are eight prisons in lingyuan city: Xinkang prison in western Liaoning, prison directly under Lingyuan Branch, Lingyuan No.1 prison, Lingyuan No.2 prison, Lingyuan No.4 prison, Lingyuan No.5 prison, Lingyuan No.6 prison and Lingyuan No.3 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.
The punishment function of prison refers to the sum of the 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.
The defense function of prison refers to the sum of the effects of preventing criminals from committing crimes again by executing penalties, and at the same time warning, deterring and educating other people who may commit crimes in society so as not to embark on the road of crime.
The reform function of prison refers to the sum of the educational effects of reforming criminals' criminal thoughts according to the purpose of punishment and cultivating them to abide by the law.
Special prevention means that prisons deprive criminals of their personal freedom by executing penalties, isolating them from society and losing the conditions for committing crimes again, so as to prevent them from committing crimes again during their sentences.
General prevention refers to the punishment of criminals by prisons in order to deter those who have not committed crimes and prevent them from committing crimes.