The death penalty is the most serious and terrible punishment in our country, but in fact, for those criminals who break the law, life imprisonment, which is second only to the death penalty, is the most painful and tormenting.
What kind of life do those who have been sentenced to life imprisonment live in prison every day?
The source in this article is from the official ** (Jialing Prison, Sichuan Province), released on December 3, 2019, but in order to improve the readability of the article, the details may be polished, please read sensibly, for reference only!It is the duty of every citizen to abide by the law, but in real life, there will still be people who go astray for various reasons, break the law and commit crimes, and finally be punished by the law and suffer from prison.
When it comes to the heaviest punishment in the country, the first thing that comes to many people's minds is the "death penalty", the death penalty is indeed the heaviest punishment for a person, but in fact, for prisoners in prison, there is a punishment that is more painful and difficult than the death penalty, that is, life imprisonment.
As the name suggests, life imprisonment is an indefinite prison life, and the original intention was to keep prisoners in prison forever and deprive them of all civil rights and freedoms, so as to prevent these prisoners from coming out and harming society.
For prisoners, the death penalty can be regarded as a result of their own lives, but life imprisonment is like a dark night that will never dawn, and prisoners will spend their long lives in prison in the future, and sometimes "death" is a relief for them.
Although life imprisonment sounds very hopeless, with the development of society and the improvement of the law, it is possible for prisoners to have their life sentences commuted to fixed-term imprisonment if they behave well in prison, which is also to give criminals a chance to reform and not lose hope in life.
However, even if there is a chance of commutation, the time for life imprisonment in our country is at least 13 years, and this time is counted from the day the prisoner is sentenced to life imprisonment.
If a prisoner sentenced to life imprisonment wants to receive a commutation, he or she needs to show repentance or meritorious service during the period of serving his sentence, and the specific circumstances of the commutation are that if the prisoner truly shows repentance or meritorious service, the sentence of life imprisonment may generally be commuted to 20 to 22 years imprisonment, and if there is a manifestation of repentance and reformation and major meritorious service, the sentence of life imprisonment may be commuted to 15 to 20 years imprisonment.
Although more than ten or twenty years sounds very long, it is much better than prison life with no end in sight, so many prisoners who have been sentenced to life imprisonment will basically be serious in prison and strive for commutation, but there are also some heinous or unrepentant prisoners who can never get the opportunity to reduce their sentences, and can only die in prison in the end.
Speaking of which, some people may wonder, isn't it a waste of national food to hold so many inmates in prison and give them food and shelter?
But in fact, prisons are not shelters, and they are full of people who have broken the law and committed crimes, so their lives are not easy, but very depressing and tiring.
Prison is a large collective, in which the prisoners basically have no freedom and human rights, life in it is boring and boring, there is no entertainment, only never-ending work and Xi study tasks.
The prison is under militarized management, generally getting up at 6 o'clock in the morning, can't sleep lazy, after getting up, you must first tidy up personal hygiene and dormitory hygiene, etc., and then start eating on time at 7 o'clock, and the meals are also specially provided by the prison canteen, and you can eat whatever you want in the canteen, without any possibility of pickiness, not to mention like ordinary people, you can order takeout if you are greedy.
After breakfast, the day's work begins at 8:30 a.m., and the main content of the work is labor reform, and the prison will assign prisoners to different posts according to their age and physical condition.
After the morning's work is done, lunch starts at 12 o'clock and then resumes work from 2 to 5 p.m.
After 8 p.m., the prisoners are again under unified management, they have to sum up their lives today, confess their crimes, and write down their experiences, and then go to bed at 10 o'clock.
Prison rehabilitation life is very boring day after day, and because of the long hours of being in a closed space and not being able to contact the outside world, prisoners are prone to mental illness, especially those sentenced to life imprisonment, which is both physical and psychological torture.
However, China's law is still humane, as long as it is not heinous, the most heinous people will not be sentenced to death or life imprisonment, these two kinds of capital punishment are usually for those who are extremely bad and seriously endanger the life, health and property safety of the people.
However, although these prisoners have been saddled with major or minor sins and need to be reformed in their minds and behaviors, in the spirit of humanitarianism, they are not completely devoid of recreational activities, such as the prison will give prisoners a certain amount of free time every afternoon, and will also carry out some sports and cultural activities on a regular basis, which is also part of the ideological transformation of prisoners.
In addition, there is a library in the prison, which is full of positive books, and prisoners can learn Xi knowledge and improve their literacy level in the library.
In addition, at night in the prison, the inmates will also be organized to broadcast the news together, so that they can also learn about the news and current affairs in the closed space of the prison, so as not to be out of touch with the world.
Prison inmates do not have to work hard every day, they will also have one day off every week, on the rest day, the prison guards will arrange for the prisoners to participate in activities, and to their parents and relatives ** greetings, of course, different regions, different prisons The rest time is also slightly different, but in any case, the general prison guards will try to arrange the prisoners to rest one day a week, except for prisoners who do not abide by prison discipline.
In prison, there is only one rule, that is, "abide by discipline and obey the arrangement", in our country, there is a very detailed management system for prisoners who are imprisoned, and if someone is disobedient or violates discipline, then they will be punished accordingly.
Sometimes when we watch film and television dramas, we will find that there are always people like "bosses" in prisons, and sometimes prisoners will be divided into several gangs, but in fact, in real prisons, there may be several prisoners who have a good relationship, but there will never be such phenomena as "bosses" and "gangs".
When each prisoner is sent to the prison, he or she first has to report to the "induction team", and then the prisoner needs to complete the task of learning Xi, and the content of the Xi is the various regulations of the prison and the arrangement of daily life.
Among them, there is a book "Code of Conduct for Prison Inmates", which every prisoner must memorize, and this code has a clause that "gangs are not allowed, and oppression of others is not allowed".
In addition, in order to prevent prisoners from forming gangs, the prison has also issued many special regulations, such as not allowing more than three people to sit together except for meals, and the prison will often transfer dormitories to prevent the phenomenon of gangs.
In addition, the prison also has a system of punishment for prisoners, such as dividing several people into a group, if one person fights, then the whole group will be punished, and the prison punishment for fights and brawls is also very serious, so the vicious incidents of general fights and brawls will not appear on the bright side.
Of course, there are so many prisoners in prison, and there will always be a few thorns who are not so obedient, these people are generally felons, and they can't get out for ten or eight years, so they just give up on themselves, often provoke the prison guards, and often provoke and beat other prisoners.
However, for this kind of prisoners, the prison also has a perfect way to deal with it, among which the most widely used is to establish an evaluation system, that is, prisoners with good performance can add points, and those with poor performance should be deducted points, with clear rewards and punishments, and guide prisoners to reform in a better direction.
This assessment score is very important for prisoners, because it can show the reform status of each prisoner, which is directly related to whether the prisoner can get the opportunity to reduce his sentence.
It is human nature to pursue freedom, no one wants to be locked up in a dark place forever, and most prisoners still want to return to society, so they take the assessment score very seriously, especially those who have been locked up for several years, even if it is a felon.
Since life in prison is so difficult, has anyone chosen to escape from prison after so many years?
In many film and television works, the protagonist can always succeed in escaping from prison through his own efforts, but in real life, how difficult is it to escape from prison?Has anyone ever managed to escape from prison?
A few decades ago, China's industry was not developed, so at that time, prison labor reform, generally took prisoners to the farmland to work, although the work at that time was very hard, but prison inmates were vying for a place to go out to work, after all, this was their only opportunity to contact outside the prison.
And it is precisely because the area of the field and farm is too large, and the monitoring means are not developed at that time, so even if there are many prison guards who are strictly guarded, there will still be prisoners who have been planning for a long time and are bold and successfully escape from prison during the ** period.
However, with the improvement of laws and policies and the modernization of the country, the current prisoners are all in a closed and concentrated space for labor reform, and during the work period, hundreds of people enter the factory area together, and they have to enter the post in batches, and they cannot wander around in the park.
In addition, prisons in China are generally built in remote places in the suburbs, far away from the density of people, and the prison structure has long been modernized, and all of them adopt the factory-style park management model.
The outer wall of the prison is surrounded by high walls, even the lowest prison outer wall is 7 meters high, and there is also barbed wire on the outer wall, each barbed wire not only has a circle of gillnets, but also high-voltage electricity, and each small point can detect whether there is abnormal vibration, once there is an abnormality, it will automatically alarm.
Therefore, prisoners are not allowed to climb the barbed wire, even a few meters in front of the barbed wire, and there is an alarm line on the ground, and once this line is crossed, the prison guards will fire warning shots.
In addition to the structure of the outer wall of the prison, it is comparable to the existence of copper walls, and even the floor and walls of the rooms where the prisoners live are reinforced concrete structures, and there is no situation in film and television dramas where the male protagonist escapes by digging a hole.
And the most troublesome point is that today's prisons are basically a joint sitting system, if the prisoner wants to escape, then in addition to the prison guards, but also face the risk of other prisoners reporting, this alone is enough to stump most people, after all, human nature is the most untestable.
Prison is not a shelter, but it is not a hell either, it is just a huge furnace into which those who are guilty of sin will be thrown into it, in which they will be reshaped, and if they have repentance and can become a new person, then these people will be reborn, and otherwise, they will be completely refined by this furnace.