High walls of barbed wire, cell cameras. No matter where you are outside the sacred, when you enter the gate of the prison, you will become a prisoner with a sewing machine on your feet and an unusually regular schedule.
In the rivers and lakes, you pay attention to brotherly righteousness, and in prison there are only cumbersome prison rules waiting for you.
In the movie "Eliminate the Three Evils Around the World", the second-most wanted criminal "Aberdeen" wanted to visit Xiaomei's mother, but he encountered strange and troublesome prison rules: passion fruit is not allowed.
The prison is so big and empty, why can't it accommodate a small passion fruit? It all starts with the first day you were in prison.
When you're new to the city, you'll need to clean your pockets first.
All personal belongings, including but not limited to jewelry, watches, wallets, bank cards, identity documents, all electronic devices with communication functions, and all personal clothing, must be handed in. Even wigs that cover people's ears need to be removed [1].
Next, the prison will arrange a medical examination for the inmates, and at this time, you need to take yourself clean.
The inpatient physical examination mainly involves general examination, medical and surgical examination, ENT examination, laboratory examination, chest X-ray (DR) examination, B-ultrasound and electrocardiogram examination. If you are a woman, there is also a ** test involved [2].
Such a careful arrangement is on the one hand to assess your health status and prevent infectious diseases from entering the prison area, and on the other hand, to prevent someone from secretly "entrapping smuggled goods".
In 2023, a police officer in Indiana, USA, found an inmate who was unwilling to cooperate and behaved strangely during a routine inspection of inmates serving incarcerations. Eventually, the prison guards found a foreign body in the anal cavity in the criminal's X-ray scan, an 85 inches (about 21.)5 cm) of scissors [3].
Almost every year, prison guards search for all kinds of strange things from the criminals' bodies, so in order to prevent any hole in your body from becoming an "arbitrary door", the prison doctor will be extremely careful.
After this thorough and detailed examination, you can go to prison cleanly and start a new life.
After staying in it for a long time, it is inevitable that you will miss your family, and you can make a request to meet. Of course, anyone who enters this door must abide by the rules here, and those who come to visit you are no exception.
According to the provincial prison administrations, only those who have formed a kinship relationship with you through marriage, blood, or adoption are eligible for visitation [4]. Other personnel must be approved before they can come to the prison to catch up with you[5].
Make an appointment for the meeting, check your identity documents and proof of relationship, and go through a series of touch-and-touch security checks before your family can enter the waiting area and wait for you[6][7]. As soon as you enter the meeting area, the countdown to the precious 30 minutes begins. You have 2 such opportunities to meet each other every month; Don't think it's too short, as prisoners at the strict management level only have a 20-minute reunion time every three months[4].
Not only do the people who go in need to be "clean", but so do the things that are sent in.
In our country, some prisons with very strict regulations do not even allow visitors to carry any items at all [7]. Even in prisons with lower levels of martial law, the variety of items that families can bring in is very limited.
According to the Regulations on Prisoners Accepting Gifts from Family Members, only eligible clothes, glasses, and books can be carried, and the rest of the items are not allowed to be given except in special circumstances[8].
Clothing is limited to thermal underwear and sweatshirts, and must be unbuttoned, hatless, chainless, and pocketless. First, there is no place for you to hide things, and second, if you can't think of it, there are no tools for you to commit suicide. There should not be any patterns or words on your clothes, so as not to confuse your brother outside with your "encrypted call" [8].
In addition, what can make you "open the book beneficial" in prison is limited to professional books that are legally published in China[8]. If you see too much dross outside, you will go crookedly, and you must receive formal education when you come in, change your mind and face, and purify your mind.
As for the situation in "Removing the Three Evils in the Week", you can still bring food when visiting the prison, it is a special case of the prison in Taiwan, China.
According to the regulations of the Taipei Detention Center, dishes or fruits up to two kilograms can be sent to the prison after examination, so that the prisoner can temporarily improve his light diet [9].
But in order to keep people inside and outside the prison safe, the prison has also thought of enough solutions. After all, food can be conjured up in a lot more ways than clothes and books.
For example, hard-shelled fruits with their own ** attributes are impossible to pass the prison inspection. If an innocent coconut is imprisoned, it may become a "killing weapon" in a fight; Even if it's a small passion fruit, the unripe husk is hard enough to make it a part of your homemade**; Even lychee and longan must be peeled and pitted at least before they can be delivered to your mouth [10].
In addition to security concerns, prisons also have to worry about your health.
As long as the inner groove can be hollowed out to carry "illicit goods" such as drugs and drugs, or crystalline or powdery food that itself looks like drugs, you will not be able to access it in prison [9]. According to a 2022 report by CCTV, the anti-narcotics police seized 76 pieces in three large boxes of passion fruit***11]. If you want to reproduce it, the police dog will sniff it out for you at once.
Some prisons have limited medical conditions and refuse to accept any spicy food, and you can't get your wish for a spicy chicken or spicy strips. Not to mention pastries such as sandwiches and mousses that have a short shelf life [10]. In case you get sick with a bad stomach, medical parole is not only cumbersome, but also increases your chances of escaping from prison.
What's more, even if it is food that can be brought in, your parents may not be willing to bring it. According to Taiwanese media reports, family members deliberately avoid sausages, chicken, and duck when buying "guest dishes" for fear that the homonym of the food "prolonged detention" would be unlucky [12].
The range of food options available is very small. In the end, it was not the "pre-made dishes" that were cut and cooked, or the "basics" that could be bought in prison.
At the end of the day, it's the outside world that's more exciting. If possible, don't go to jail, it's not too late to start being a new creature today.