Hunan Province Prison Building Program Study

With the development of society and technology, the new achievements of natural and social science, especially the giant strides development of information technology have provided expansive space and abundant opportunities for the work of prison management. As the punishment enforcement agencies of the nation, prisons are laden with the great responsibilities of maintaining social stability and preventing and reducing crimes. Therefore, it is of special significance to draw upon the achievements of sciences to ensure the successful exercising of the supervision and administrative function of prisons. It is the natural tendency of social and historical development to apply modern high science and technology to the complicated practice of prison management. Having practiced in this field for many years, the author tries to explain and analyze the status quo and development tendency of informatization construction work in the prison management system from the macro and micro levels in this paper. Meanwhile the author summarizes the existing problems and puts forward his proposals on the basis of empirical research nrveys.From such practices as "electronic surveillance", "free-walled cells" and "the remote video trials" in Western countries, the author generalizes the status quo and tendency of development in applying information technology to prison management in developed countries, and points out the existing problems in the construction and application of information technology to prison management in China, namely, a low starting point, unbalanced development across the country, and lack of unity in the goals of electronic prison management. Combined the existing problems and the present status, this paper attempts to put forward the principles and strategies of Hunan provincial prison informatization construction; conclude a whole plan; deploy the database and application system as well as to construct a Hunan provincial prison informatization construction scheme which contributes a theoretical guidance.