On China Commutation System

Sentence commutation system as an important component of the implementation of the system, is accompanied by the birth of punishment and implementation of the system development. In the early years of the civil society, the emergence of the prototype commutation system, such as Chinese feudal society "shirt punishment." Commutation system in the modern sense of the development is divided into two stages of development, namely, when the system and the progressive improvement of the system case. Thanks to the joint effect of Chinese traditional values and social status quo of China’s commutation system with any other country in the world is not the same. The most prominent feature of the implementation of changes to the penalty system is "heavy commutation, parole light." According to the National Statistics prosecutors prison, commuted the prison for a wide range of high frequency apply. Monitoring sites across the country each year commuted more than400,000cases, the applicable rate of over25%. And25%of the base which also includes a large number of prison in two years because of time reasons can not short sentence commuted guilty. As ordinary prison prosecutors and police officers, and I see at work in the long term than two years the transformation of prisoners attitude, and actively participate in the labor and three lessons to learn in basic sentences are able to get more than one sentence.Although the legal system of commutation system has been basically established, and constraints between the various departments with the smooth operation of the mechanism, but there are still many problems in terms of the basic concept of the legislative provisions and procedural requirements or entity on the improvement process will be a relatively long stage.1believe that in order to temper justice with mercy criminal policy as a guide, and implement the concept of transformation and protection of human rights enforcement premise of continuous improvement to improve commutation system in both entities and procedures in order to explore the real commutation system suitable for China’s system.