What's life like in Lanzhou prison every day?

I once had a job envied by my peers, but I was jailed for embezzlement.

I don't want to confess here. I was baptized in purgatory and suffered unimaginable pain. I have paid for my mistakes and redeemed my sins.

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? . . . . . . 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 the 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, in addition to the "new harvest", each person completed a sweater in two days, and the indicators of other old prisoners 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.