1. Prison in the broad sense refers to the place where all prisoners are held, including prisons, detention centers, detention centers and so on.
2, the narrow sense of the prison is in accordance with the provisions of the Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure Law, sentenced to death penalty suspended for two years, life imprisonment, fixed-term criminals, in prison to carry out the sentence. The principle of combining punishment and rehabilitation, education and labor is applied to criminals to transform them into law-abiding citizens. The competent authority for prisons is the Prison Administration and the highest administrative authority is the Ministry of Justice.