It is possible to wash with hot water in prisons.
The Prison Law stipulates that prisons shall set up medical institutions and living and sanitary facilities, and establish a living and sanitary system for convicts. The medical care of criminals is included in the health and epidemic prevention plan of the region where the prison is located. Prisons with a full range of living facilities, such as dormitories equipped with hot water boilers, public **** washroom, bathroom, washroom built with a washing pool, shower nozzle, etc., to facilitate the daily washing, bathing, etc., serving prisoners.
There is a system for the daily life of the inmates, and the housekeeping of the inmates is also regulated. In addition to serving prisoners their own beds, items cabinet and other supplies organized and tidy, the prison floor, corridors, bathrooms, washrooms and other public **** place, there are special personnel responsible for cleaning, disinfection. Management of civilian police to carry out daily checks to ensure that the housekeeping hygiene neat, clean, to meet the requirements of epidemic prevention.
Of course, the bathing facilities for the inmates are not separate, but public ****, installing a row of bathing nozzles in the washroom and taking turns to bathe. In winter, the prison will use the boiler equipment through the hot water pipeline to centralize the supply of hot water for the inmates to take a bath, which can ensure that every inmate will have a hot water bath at least once a week.
Some prisons install a large air-energy water heater in each dormitory, staggering the supply of bath water according to floor level. Each prisoner is given a bath card, a card that gives them four baths a month, and if they want to take more baths, they can top up their account.
The daily washing and laundry of the inmates is done in the washroom, including washing their faces, brushing their teeth, washing their clothes and so on. In addition, the prison also has a sunshine drying room on each floor of the prison building, specializing in drying the clothes of the inmates.
Functions of Prisons
1. The punitive function of prisons refers to the sum of the psychologically painful effects produced by the state's efforts to place the body and mind of the condemned person under conditions of punishment and to restrict his or her mental and material life.
2. The reform function of prison refers to the sum of the educational effects of the prison based on the purpose of punishment to transform the criminal mind of the offender and train him to become law-abiding.
3. The defense function of prison refers to the sum of the effects of prison to prevent criminals from committing crimes again by enforcing their penalties, and at the same time to warn, deter, and educate other possible criminals in the society, so as to keep them from embarking on the path of crime.
4. Special prevention means that prisons, by enforcing sentences on criminals and depriving them of their personal freedom, isolate them from society and deprive them of the conditions for committing crimes again, so as to prevent them from reoffending while serving their sentences.
5. General prevention refers to the prison through the punishment of criminals in order to deter those who have not yet committed a crime, to prevent them from embarking on the path of crime.