目前,我国共有监狱、劳改队680个,现有在押罪犯110万人。新中国的监狱、劳改队是人民民主专政的重要工具之一,是国家机器的重要组成部分,是对罪犯实施惩罚和改造的刑罚执行机关,但它不同于旧社会的监狱,不是要在肉体上消灭罪犯,不是单纯地惩罚,而是组织罪犯参加劳动,学习政治、法律、文化和技术,把他们改造成为遵纪守法的新人,最终消除犯罪。新中国监狱管理工作,称之为劳改工作,监狱管理工作者,属人民警官系列,称之为劳改工作警官,亦简称为“狱警”。 At present, China has a total of 680 prisons and labor reform teams, and its existing criminals are 1,100,000. The prisons and labor reform teams in New China are one of the important tools for the people’s democratic dictatorship. They are an important part of the state machinery and are the penal agencies that punish and reform criminals. However, unlike the prisons in the old society, To eliminate criminals not simply to punish them, but to organize criminals to participate in labor, learn politics, law, culture and technology and transform them into law-abiding newcomers to eventually eliminate crime. Prison management in new China, called labor reform work, prison management workers, is a series of people’s police officers, called the labor reform police officers, also referred to as “prison guards.”