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It is located at the foot of the Great Wall and beside the Guishui River, where the vegetation is lush and the flowers are delicate and charming. However, the unique symbols of the sentry standing guard and the high-wall power grid make all the plants and trees here wear solemn and mysterious veils. As a special prison in Beijing’s prison system, Yanqing Prison specializes in holding old, sick and disabled criminals. Among them, more than 100 male psychopaths in Beijing are concentrated here. Manic, depressed, paranoid … almost all kinds of mental disorders exist. They are prisoners and patients, so it is difficult to manage and treat them. How can these special prisoners reform and cure their mental and spiritual diseases? With all kinds of questions, the reporter walked into the 11 th section of Yanqing Prison yesterday.
Psychopaths are afraid of boredom and trouble.
There is a classic mental hospital scene in the Chinese New Year blockbuster "Big shot", in which patients are either rolling around or shooting with their mouths full, which makes people laugh and cry. However, as soon as he entered the gate of the sub-prison, the reporter was surprised that not only did he not see the noisy and noisy scenes in the movie and imagination, but it was so quiet that people questioned whether there were really more than 100 mental prisoners living here. Prisoners look no different from normal people. Six people live in a cell, reading, resting, tidying up the house or strolling in the tunnel.
The reporters were greeted by Shen Bingyu and Zhu Kuncheng, two district heads of sub-prisons, who worked together in the psychiatric ward for five years. Many people don’t understand that mental illness can be exempted from criminal responsibility, and how can it be put in prison? Shen Jian’s introduction first explained this problem to the reporter: "The mental patients here are mainly intermittent mental illness, and they belong to people with limited capacity. They are prisoners who are given a lighter or mitigated punishment according to law, and 70% are heavy criminals with no life and suspended death. The remaining part is mentally ill after entering prison because it can’t adapt to the life of losing freedom. "
"These more than 100 mental patients are divided into three types: treatment period, rehabilitation period and stable period. For us, prisoners who are getting sick and noisy are the easiest to manage." Shen Jian’s words were very unexpected to the reporter. He explained: "For example, we have a prisoner here who is schizophrenic. After he was in prison, he was transferred to prison four times and committed suicide four times. He hit his head anytime, anywhere and unconditionally, and he was transferred to our prison area with a helmet. Diagnosed by the doctor, he suffers from schizophrenia and bipolar affective psychosis of mania and depression. In a situation like this, we can only give him medicine first and restrain him with medical measures. It is those who are silent and can’t see the signs that make people nervous. "
Zhu Jian said that a prisoner was very normal when talking with the police. After talking, he got up and bowed to the police and said thank you. But at this moment, he turned and started to run outside, and the captain chased after him, running away with his shoes. Finally, he caught him at the gate of the prison area. "Psychiatric prisoners have strong concealment, so in addition to full-time psychiatrists who are responsible for treating them here, we have also set up a system of nurses on duty. Let healthy, well-behaved prisoners be caregivers, patrol the tunnel with the police for 24 hours, report any abnormality immediately, stop and control the situation in time for suicides, injuries and other diseases, or double-monitor. In order to ensure the safety of prisoners, the heating in the cell is wrapped, and the windows and doors are pasted with stickers to prevent them from breaking into sharp weapons after impact.
Let "dumb" criminals speak
Because of their special diseases and crimes, some mental prisoners are not tolerated by society and some are despised by their families, but it is precisely in prison that no one is abandoned. I wish the warden gave an example to the reporter: Wang, a prisoner, was already suffering from schizophrenia when he was transferred to Yanqing prison. He was very withdrawn and never spoke. Every time his father came to the prison to meet, the two men held the phone face to face, and his father kept talking. Wang never said a word. When the father finished speaking, the two men put down the receiver and sat opposite each other until the end of the meeting time. Many people think that he is a mute.
After asking Wang’s family, the police learned that Wang had been able to speak before, and he had not spoken for three years since he got sick. The affirmation of family members gave the police motivation. Later, the police consciously approached him, cared about his life, talked to him every day, and asked the prisoners in the same group to talk to him. Although they didn’t hear Wang say a word, the police always felt that they could make him speak like a normal person.
During his time in prison, Wang was also observing the police. He found that he was not bullied, and no one looked down on him. The concern of the captain also made him feel very warm. But after all, I haven’t spoken for three years, and I have to use a special method to make him speak. When the captain was on a patrol, he suddenly called his name in front of Wang, and Wang actually subconsciously answered "to". This word is not only an inspiration to the police work, but also breaks the barrier of Wang’s autism. Although the language function has been seriously degraded, Wang gradually resumed his desire to communicate. For example, knocking on the table is called "Captain Mu", and drinking water represents "Captain He". When he saw his father again, Wang first called "Dad" and then reported his life in prison to his father. The father who hadn’t heard his son talk for more than three years suddenly burst into tears.
The courage to let the sick man regain his life.
Shen Jian said that because these prisoners have long prison terms and suffer from mental illness, many people are prone to suicidal thoughts because they hurt their families. Therefore, while treating their diseases, the police should also help them find the courage to live again.
The prisoner Liang once participated in the theft and escaped. After committing the crime, he "flew" outside for more than a year. During his escape, he panicked every time he heard the siren. The fear of fleeing eventually made him suffer from mental illness. After being reported, Liang was arrested and sentenced to 15 years. After entering the psychiatric ward, Liang secretly picked up a piece of broken glass from the ground when he released the wind, which was discovered by the police in time. The police asked him what he was going to do, and Liang said that he wanted to cut his pulse and commit suicide at an appropriate time. During the conversation, the police learned that he liked sports and "excited" him to say, "Do you dare to compete with me in basketball?" At first, Liang felt that the police were joking with him. Who knows that he was really recruited into the basketball team in the prison area and often participated in some sports activities. Through physical exercise, Liang’s spirit is getting better and better day by day, and people are much more excited, restoring the vitality of young people, and he has never been ill until now.
Appreciation and encouragement is a principle of reforming prisoners in psychiatric ward. Zhao, who is working as a nurse for sick people in the prison area, was sentenced to death with a suspended sentence for robbery. He always felt that he could not walk out of the prison door alive, and every day he clamored to pull him back and shoot him. The police and paramedics watched him for 24 hours. In contact again and again, the police realized that Zhao did not really want to die, but was desperate for the prison life in the second half of his life. "He has the skill of haircut and has to give him a chance to restore his life." The police asked him to use his skills to give haircuts to other prisoners every Saturday. Zhao not only felt that life had hope, but also became a nurse for sick people after two years.
Enjoy beautiful scenery, listen to music, raise small animals and cultivate healthy personality
It is not the purpose of the prison to just watch over the accident. The prison for mental patients is to restore the healthy personality and self-control of mental patients on the basis of stability and by means of correction, and then put them into reform after self-restraint. For this reason, the police have not tried to find a way.
There is a warm name-"Love Paradise" in an open space surrounded by iron nets in the center of the prison area. More than a dozen "big mushrooms" of various colors are Bunny’s dormitory, where prisoners raise small animals, enjoy beautiful scenery and listen to music, so as to resolve bad emotions, cultivate normal thinking and restore healthy personality. In addition, the prison has invested a lot of equipment to establish a chess room, a reading room, an audio-visual room, a physical therapy room, an arts training room and an agricultural therapy base. These five rooms, one park and one base have become the most distinctive places for the rehabilitation of mental patients. "Prisoners are now playing bridge, and the level of Go is also the highest in Yanqing Prison. Healthy chess activities are helpful to their thinking and intelligence; They have also formed a small band, which is practicing songs these two days and will tour in various prison areas next month; The vegetables in the agricultural treatment base should also be mature. Although the output is small, giving each of them a tomato can be regarded as the fruit of their labor. Through a variety of corrective methods, the proportion and incidence of unstable conditions of mentally ill prisoners have dropped significantly in recent years. " Shen warden said with a big smile.
Looking at their healthy and active lives, it is really hard to imagine that these are all mental patients. They lost their freedom here and secretly repented for their irreparable mistakes; But it is also here to regain dignity and find a healthy life in the people-oriented management mode of prisons. Although the reality that the reporter saw was not as exciting as expected, but calm and serene, and the police were not imposing but amiable, this is the image of a modern prison and the best evidence that this special prison area has not had an accident for more than ten years. Author: Sun Ying
Editor: Wang Xi