【Explanation】In order to make criminals fully feel the love and warmth of their relatives, help criminals build confidence in reform, and consciously accelerate the pace of reform. Recently, Hulan Prison in Heilongjiang Province carried out a family love help and education activity with the theme of "family affection sprinkled with the new road". A total of 32 criminals were selected due to major changes in their families, large ideological fluctuations, and the needs of individual education work, and 69 family members of prisoners were invited to participate in this activity.

Li Yong, head of the education and reform section of Hulan Prison in Heilongjiang Province

Since the implementation of the "Category B and B management", Hulan Prison has held a family help and education activity for the first time, inviting the families of inmates to directly feel the reform environment of their relatives in Hulan Prison, so that they can rest assured. When family help and education is carried out, inmates can also understand the situation at home, which plays an important role in the inmates' peace of mind.

【Explanation】During the activity, accompanied by the prison police, the families of the criminals visited the prison meal center, the place of education and study after leaving prison, the art workshop, the prison house, and other places for the daily reform of prisoners, and listened to the introduction of the prison district police on the daily reform of the prisoner. Subsequently, the prison signed the "Family Affection Assistance and Education Agreement" with the family, calling on the families of prisoners to take the initiative to participate in the daily help and education work, and form a joint force of help and education.

【During the same period】Gong Zhipeng, deputy director of the third prison district of Hulan Prison in Heilongjiang Province

Our prison district selected two criminals to participate in this help and education activity, both of whom have relatively long sentences, usually have greater ideological pressure, and one of the criminals is seriously ill. We also held an all-inmate meeting to educate all inmates to obtain opportunities for family help and education only by actively and hard reform, and also through this activity to educate all inmates to devote themselves to reform and strive for early reduction of sentences.

【Commentary】In order to strengthen the effect of family affection and education, Hulan Prison in Heilongjiang Province invited criminals and their families to watch entertainment performances together, and the original song "Mother, Mother" by the prison police resonated with the entire audience. In the dumpling-making session, criminals and criminals' families exchanged thoughts and looked forward to reunion.

[During the same period] inmates

This time, my lover came to the scene, and I was also very excited. While serving my sentence, I will also try to make a good rehabilitation, and strive to return to my family and reunite with my family as soon as possible. In the following time, I will also try to learn something, and when I am released, I will not be disconnected from society, and my family will not worry about me.

[During the same period] inmates

I haven't seen my children in more than nine years, and I feel that the prison organized this event very well, allowing us to relax our minds and accept the reform steadily.

[During the same period] Family members of prisoners

I haven't seen my son for three years, but today I came to Hulan Prison, I was very happy to see my son, he made me a pair of insoles, gave me my own hand insoles, I was in a very good mood and very happy. We all hope that he will be well reformed here, and when he is released from prison, he will return to society and be a useful person to society.

In the future, Hulan Prison in Heilongjiang Province will continue to take "cohesion and reform, mutual assistance and confidence" as the foothold, rely on "affection, promote new life", build a platform for criminals and relatives to exchange emotions with each other, guide criminals to reflect on their faulty lives through the sincere call and persuasion of relatives, stimulate gratitude and repentance, enable criminals to constantly correct themselves in the process of reform, infiltrate the ideas of good deeds, kindness, and propriety in their hearts, and promote the quality of education and reform to be significantly improved.

Reporting by Liu Lu from Harbin, Heilongjiang

Responsible Editor: [Luo Pan]