Tang, The Prison System Of The Qing Dynasty Comparative Study

Ancient Chinese prison system has a long history. Tang Dynasty, the prison system and well-advanced, and future generations of East Asian countries have far-reaching effects. Qing Dynasty history of the prison system set Dacheng, and in the late Qing Dynasty carried out to improve the prison system, the first of the modern prison system. Tang dynasties in Chinese history of the prison occupies an important position.Tang Dynasty, the main prison in the Legislative Council, "Tang Shu you" and "Law Zhenguan" single act, the prison set up at the central prisons and local jails, prisons have a central prison Dali Si, and so on, local government, both county prison. Detailed specification for the prison system, forming a system of the Department of prisoners, prisoners pity, the responsibility of prison officials and inmates were recorded in the system. Legislation and enforcement of the Tang Dynasty prison for Ke Shen lenient in passing sentence, but inevitably a miscarriage of justice and severely punished Jun, submerged prisoners.Qing Dynasty, prisons and improve the legislation was scattered Qinglv large, the cases mentioned in prison legislation, the fall-trial regulations, customs and prison Code will be the one-way system in the characteristics of the Act. Integrity of the prison setting, there is a central monitoring Xingbu, Shengjing Xingbu supervisors, who were vacant House, Secretary prison sentence Shen, Jun Tongling step Yamen prison, in addition to the local prison Shuntian Fu, Tianfu from prison, the province government, states and counties are There prisons, the existence of other classrooms; management of the prison system, compared with the Tang Dynasty, released in the system of norms addressed in detail. Prison Practice in the Qing Dynasty and the operation of the legal system different from that prison conditions are poor, over-proliferation of false imprisonment sentence.End of the Qing dynasty, including improved prison system into thinking prison, will be awarded the prison rules, into the new prison, standardize the management of the prison, prison officials elected and strict attention to prison statistics. On the one hand, indicates that improvement of the penitentiary system of feudal decline, on the other hand, marked a modern prison system started.