I don't want to confess here today. I was baptized in purgatory and suffered unimaginable pain. I have paid for my mistakes and redeemed my sins. I thought of posting this post because many people don't know what a prison is. In the eyes of most people, people in prison must be heinous, unforgivable and extremely bad, but they are not; CCTV once broadcast a TV series "Women's Prison". I believe that most people who don't know what a prison is want to know about the prison and the prisoners who engage in lawsuits through this TV series. However, is this really the case? Now there are many people who have no money, people who don't have enough to eat and people who have no place to sleep. I think if that's the case, there may be a long queue at the prison gate.
Some prisoners were released after a year or two, and some were sentenced to heavy sentences. They stayed for more than ten years. A female prisoner of our brigade stayed in it for 1 1 year from the beginning of criminal detention to my release from prison. She was detained on 1994. After a series of procedures such as criminal investigation and criminal proceedings, when the court ruled, she had spent six years in the detention center. She is an economic criminal. It has been 1 1 year since he was released from prison. By the time I got out of prison, she had just reduced her sentence once, which was 1.5 years, which means she still has more than ten years to spend in it. He was only in his thirties when he went in, and he was almost 60 when he got out of prison.
I kept a diary when I was inside. It's a pity that I tore it up before I got out of prison, because the prison has such management regulations that any written manuscript brought out of prison by released prisoners must undergo strict inspection, and things involving prison will be confiscated. I knew this rule when I wrote those diaries, and I knew it was impossible to take them out, but I still wrote them every day. I can only use words to forget my physical pain and mental pain.
I stayed there for five years, during which I suffered a lot, but I also learned a lot. What's it like inside? How do people live inside? What do they do? How do prisons manage prisoners? Are those prison guards as heroic as Lady Enforcers in Hong Kong dramas? . . . . . . I think these questions are like a mystery to people who have never been in prison, and there are many stories in them.
The purpose of posting this post is just to let outsiders know about this prison and the people living in it. In it, prison guards are the people who manage prisoners, and prisoners are the people who accept punishment and reform. Among these two opposing groups, the most controversial issue is whether the current supervision system, supervision system and the quality of police supervision in China can transform a criminal.
Some people commit crimes with bad nature and intentional motives, but many of them are the result of ignorance of the law or impulse. The prisoner inside said that prison is a place where bad people will go bad when they come in, and good people will go bad when they come in. Even some policemen have to admit this reality when talking to prisoners.
After the court's decision, all the suspects became veritable prisoners. Sentenced people are called "condemned criminals" in detention centers. We can't put them in the same cell as the criminal suspects who haven't been sentenced. The detention center sends a batch of "condemned prisoners" to prison on the 5th of every month. Therefore, the 5th of each month is the "freshman admission" day in prison. There are five squadrons in the prison, and each squadron is divided into two or three squadrons. The Second Squadron, 1, is a "recruit" squadron in the prison. All new prisoners have to go to this squadron for a three-month "recruit" education and training. In fact, education and training will never last for three months, because prisoners have to undergo labor reform. Each "new income" reaches the production target according to 60% of the old prisoners. The production in the prison is chaotic, and the police in charge of production take over the work outside. Of course, most of them are unskilled manual labor. What I did when I first went in was knitting. There are very few girls who can knit sweaters now, especially those with high academic qualifications and better working conditions outside. At first, their hands were as stupid as their feet. However, the system inside is particularly strict, and those who fail to reach the target will stay up all night. At that time, except for the "new harvest", each person completed a sweater in two days, and other old prisoners' indicators were one sweater a day. It is hard for us "newcomers" who have just entered prison to believe that there are people in the world who can knit so fast. However, after three months, all "newcomers" can reach this level (except prisoners over 50 and disabled prisoners, their indicators are not so high).
Prison gets up at 5 in summer and 6 in winter. After getting up, you should first fold the quilt. This quilt is also "new harvest" training, just like in the army. Then sit on the stool and wait for the police to "unseal", that is, open the door of the cell. Then everyone in the cell went out to wash and go to the toilet, and then went back to the cell for breakfast. All these things must be completed within 1 hour. /kloc-the whole team will line up for work after 0/hour.
Prisoners in prisons do a lot of work, including manual and machine work. Most manual labor is knitting, buttoning, embroidering, making paper bags, folding envelopes and so on, while machine labor is stepping on sewing machines. When doing manual labor, it is basically in the prison room, 12 people, six iron beds on both sides of the upper and lower floors, and one stool for each person in front of the bed. Besides, there is only a narrow passage in the middle. Working in prison is hard. The room is small and there is no table. All the work that has been done and not done well can only be put on the bed. People who sleep in the lower bunk are always stuffed. Because of this, quarrels and fights often happen. Lunch and dinner are only 30 minutes, and each prison has a supervisor. When having dinner, the supervisor first goes to the corridor to call in 12 people's meals, all in lead barrels, and then distributes them to everyone.
There is no table, so we can only eat in bed. There are no chopsticks, only spoons. Clean people will spread newspapers on the bed. Most people don't pay attention to these because the indicators are too heavy to sleep at night. Even eating feels like a waste of time. Every bite of rice is swallowed, and as soon as they put down their work, they immediately went to work. Therefore, people who have eaten lawsuits eat quickly. It has been difficult for me to get rid of this habit since I got out of prison. It seems that I will never chew slowly and taste delicious dishes again. Eating in it is just to prevent yourself from starving to death, and everything else is ignored.
Knitting is the most difficult job because there is no need for tools. The tools mentioned in it are iron tools such as needles and scissors, and the sweater needles are made of bamboo, not counting. The management of tools in prison is quite strict. All "recruits" are taught as soon as they enter prison: tools are your life, tools must be there when people are around, and tools must be there when people are not around. I didn't understand why I was so nervous about tools at first, but I didn't know until I saw more. Many people can't bear the high overdraft of physical strength, and more importantly, they are under great mental pressure, so they will think of suicide and self-harm. Suicide and self-mutilation is the most important thing in prison. If there is such a thing, all prisoners from prison leaders, squadrons, squadrons to brigades will be severely dealt with.
During my imprisonment, only one female prisoner committed suicide successfully. As a result, all the captains, squadron leaders and squadrons of her brigade were transferred. In that year, the index of "reforming activists" in the whole brigade was halved, and every prisoner in the squadron where female prisoners committed suicide was cancelled. You know, prisoners work hard in it, hoping to get a reduced sentence, and a year's efforts go up in smoke because of other people's affairs. What a sad thing it is.
So there is also a system of mutual supervision between prisoners. To tell the truth, suicide is not easy, but it still happens frequently, but it is difficult to succeed. If there is any tool work, the team leader on duty will collect it at night. As for when to collect it, it depends on the number of posts and the mood of the police on duty. But no one cares about knitting sweaters. You can call anytime. We are not allowed to turn off the lights when sleeping at night, so we often stay up all night. I hope I can do more even if I finish the index of the day. Only when the output exceeds others can I get a reduced sentence.
In his second year in prison, he was transferred to a new brigade, and it was a job of stepping on a sewing machine. We have made cotton underwear, bedding, clothing, shoes and hats, as well as domestic famous brand underwear. Machine work must be carried out between factories. After work at 7 o'clock, it is impossible to return to the cell after 12 o'clock. It takes two hours to wash after work, because all activities are collective actions. You have to wait in line to report, and you have to take turns in a prison area. You can go to bed at almost 2 or 3 o'clock.
You can't be lazy when working between factories, because it is assembly line processing. If you haven't finished this process, people in the next process will curse and you will delay others' time. The sentence "Time is money" is fully reflected here, but let's put it another way: "Time is output".
Having said that, I want to remind everyone that underwear, sheets and quilt covers bought in the future must be cleaned before use, even if they are bought in a specialty store. When we work between factories, in order to save time, auxiliary materials, semi-finished products and finished products are piled on the ground, and the lathe workers can't walk around while sitting in the parking space. Auxiliary workers drag piles of things around the ground, and the finished products are directly packaged and labeled as manufacturers. Although we feel sorry, there is nothing we can do. I think it must be the same in men's prisons or other prisons.
There are several policemen in the prison, but they are not allowed to enter the prison area or have direct contact with the prisoners. There are also male police officers in the discipline inspection commission or the education department who need to talk to the prisoners. At this time, it must be taken away by the prisoner's competent police, and there will be a special conversation room. It is impossible for a male policeman to enter the living area of a female prisoner. The management of some prisons is still relatively civilized. I am litigating in a big city, which is better. What is even more frightening is to hear some tired prisoners talking about prisons in small places. At least in this prison where I stay, there is no police beating prisoners, and there are not many fights between prisoners. There is no such thing as a jailer in Hong Kong movies. Of course, it is common for prisoners to bully prisoners, but it is not so rampant.