Prisons and Corrections Reform in Present China
今年是中国实行改革开放30周年。如今,改革开放已经成为中国的政治话语,所有政府机关、乃至企事业单位都必须进行改革,而且是要不停地改革,与时俱进,否则将被视为政治上保守、落后,相关责任人将会受到批评、指责,甚至被淘汰出局。因此,当今的中国,改革开放正在全面、深入、持续地向纵深发展。中国监狱与矫正制度改革也是一样,30年来一刻也没有停止过。本文着重介绍21世纪以来中国监狱与矫正制度改革的三大举措,并阐述作者的观点。这三大改革举措是:监狱布局调整、监狱体制改革、社区矫正试点。下面分别予以介绍:
Three measures have been taken to reform the prisons and corrections by China government since the beginning of the 21st century. The first, prison distributions and positions adjustment has been made. Since the fifties of the last century, most of prisons in China were located in faraway mountains and countryside areas. This status were some suitable at that time, but now the limitation is evident increasingly. Therefore since the beginning of 2002, China government began the prison distributions and positions adjustment. Most prisons will be moved to the suburbs and the areas convenient for transportation and communications by the end of 2010. Secondly, the renovation of prison administration systems has been made. Since the foundation of P. R. China, the prisons and prison enterprises had been combined together. After the reform and open policy were adopted in China, the contradictions between prisons and its enterprises appeared. In 2003, China government made the decision that the prisons and its enterprises should be separated. More just, incorruptible, humane and civilized, and efficient prison administration systems will be built in China in near future. The last, community correction pilot programmes have been sponsored. Because of the theory influences, and more importantly, the urgent need of the present situation, community correction pilot programmes were sponsored in China in 2003. Now the pilot programmes have been extended to 25 provincial level districts.