1. Detention center is a place of detention established according to laws and regulations on public security management. There are two objects of detention. The first is the person who is administratively detained by the public security organ for violating the laws and regulations on public security administration, and the second is the person who is decided to be judicial custody by the people's court for violating court discipline in civil, administrative and criminal proceedings. The longest period of administrative detention and judicial custody is fifteen days, and the longest period of combined execution shall not exceed twenty days.
2. The detention center is a place of detention established according to the laws and regulations of criminal procedure. The objects of detention are active criminals, criminal suspects or defendants who are criminally detained or arrested on suspicion of committing crimes, and convicted criminals whose remaining sentence is less than one year. For a criminal suspect who has not been arrested, the period of criminal detention is generally seven days, and it can be extended to thirty-seven days if there are legal reasons. For arrested criminal suspects and defendants, if compulsory measures are not changed, the detention period is the whole process of criminal proceedings. The essential difference among police station, detention center, detention center and prison lies in their different functions. The main function of the police station is to manage household registration and grass-roots public security; The main function of the detention center is to detain criminal suspects who have been arrested and detained according to law; The main function of the detention center is to detain a specific person for a short time according to law; The main function of a prison is to punish and reform prisoners.
First of all, the police station
The police station is the grass-roots organization of the public security system and the agency of the higher public security organs. In China, according to the national laws and regulations on public security management and the authority stipulated by the public security organs at higher levels, the main tasks of police stations are: resolutely implementing the line, principles and policies of public security work; Combating criminals; Prevent and control all kinds of accidents, manage social order and maintain public order; Protect the legitimate rights and interests of the people from infringement and safeguard national security.
Second, the detention center
The detention center is an organ that detains criminal suspects who have been arrested and detained according to law. If a prisoner sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment has less than three months left before being handed over for execution, the detention center shall execute it on his behalf.
Third, the detention center
Detention center is a place of detention established according to the current laws, regulations, rules and relevant provisions of our country, which is managed by the public security department in a unified way. The detention center was established according to the Regulations on Administrative Penalties for Public Security passed by the National People's Congress Standing Committee (NPCSC).
Four. prison
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, and carries out the punishment in prison. 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.