According to Article 253 of the Criminal Procedure Law, if a criminal is delivered for execution, the people's court delivering the execution shall serve the relevant legal documents to the public security organs, prisons or other executing organs within 10 days after the judgment takes effect. 1) Generally speaking, criminals are sent to prison to serve their sentences after the criminal judgment takes effect. 2) If an appeal is filed, it will be judged whether it is necessary to be sent to prison according to the remaining sentence after the judgment of the second instance takes effect. If the remaining sentence is less than 3 months, it will be executed in a detention center, and if it is more than 3 months, it will be assigned to a specific 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.