After the liberation of Shanghai, the prison was taken over by the Municipal Military Management Committee, and after rectification, cleaning and transformation, it became the tool of the people's democratic dictatorship and the executive organ of state punishment. 65438+September 2 1 0949, Shanghai People's Court Prison was formally established. Wu Zhongqi, a famous calligrapher in China, was the head of the Eighth Route Army and the teacher of General Feng Yuxiang's Jinshi, and became the first warden after liberation. Tilanqiao Prison is the first prison established in Shanghai since the liberation of Shanghai. And for a long time, it was the entrance for new prisoners in Shanghai. 195 1 May, according to the relevant regulations of the State Council, the prison was placed under the leadership of the Shanghai Public Security Bureau by the court. In August of the same year, it was renamed Shanghai Prison, and it was placed under the leadership of the judicial system from July. 1983. /kloc-0 changed its name to Shanghai Tilanqiao Prison in June, 1995. For decades, prisons have adhered to the principle of "combining punishment with reform, and combining education with labor" to educate criminals about the situation, policies and future. Organize prisoners to read books and newspapers, invite experts, model workers, advanced figures, victims and prisoners' families to give reports in prison, organize prisoners to go out to visit, strengthen assessment management, implement policies in time, carry out commutation, parole and execution outside prison according to law, implement humanitarian and civilized management, do not beat and scold corporal punishment, do not insult prisoners' personality, and provide prisoners with food and clothing. Over the years, prisons have also carried out classified education and reform for different types of prisoners, such as thieves, sex offenders, violent offenders and economic offenders. And popularize junior high school culture education among prisoners, set up high school and junior college classes at multiple levels, and take the unified cultural examination in the city. Those who pass the examination will be awarded graduation (completion) certificates by the Education Bureau. Organize criminals to receive technical training and vocational training, and those who pass the training will be issued with technical grade certificates. In addition, poetry creation, painting and calligraphy arts and crafts activities were carried out among prisoners, and the "Xin 'an Art Troupe" and the "Tilanqiao Translation Room" were organized. Starting from 1982, hard-printed "Reeducation through Labor" was published for prisoners to read, and Xin 'an radio station and cable TV station were established to cultivate their sentiments with healthy and rich cultural activities. Since the 1990s, he has compiled Selected Works of Classification and Reform, Heart of Purgatory, Book of Two Places, Confession and Friends of Prisoners' Mental Health, and opened psychological consultation clinics. Tilanqiao Prison is a modern western-style "foreign prison" in China, which basically maintains the architectural features of the 1920s and 1930s, and is undoubtedly a natural photography venue for film and television departments. Over the years, it has been favored by many film and television units across the country. The feature films that came to the prison to shoot included Fire behind bars, Juvenile Delinquency, Chen Geng's Suffering, Chen Geng's Escaping from Danger, Dead Light on Coral Island, China's Police Flower, Midnight, Devil and Angel, Destined Love, and Good Man's Deal. The TV plays include The Price, Dawn in Prison, The Secret Agent, The Lean Generation, Kumar, Ruonan and Her Daughter, Secret No.1, Pan Hannian and so on.
199965438+In February, the "Shanghai Prison Exhibition Hall" was built in a six-story prison building in Tilanqiao Prison, where Japanese war criminals were once held, tried and executed. At present, the exhibition area is 2800 square meters, which has been visited by groups and featured by many news media. The book Tilanqiao Prison, which systematically records the history of Tilanqiao Prison, was published by China Literature and History Publishing House. This book describes the life experience, history, allusions, characters, past events and present situation of this famous prison from the perspectives of prison vicissitudes, purgatory elite, ultimate prison death and prison history, which has strong historical value and readability.
The author of this book, Xu Jiajun, used to be the director of the Local Records Office of Shanghai Prison Administration and worked in Tilanqiao Prison for many years. In order to complete this historical reading, he consulted a large number of archives, newspapers and periodicals in Beijing, Shanghai and Jiangsu, and interviewed many witnesses.
Xu Jiajun said that the original study of the history of Tilanqiao Prison was to save historical materials, because some of the "secret histories" of some modern historical figures circulating in the market are true, but there are also a large number of "art exhibitions", some of which can be clarified by consulting the relevant files and historical materials of Tilanqiao Prison. Tilanqiao is not only a prison, but also a witness to the special modern history of China. It is also an important memorial site of the world anti-fascist war in Shanghai. There are new historical materials about the history of Tilanqiao prison, and he will write a more comprehensive prison history supplement when he has the opportunity.