In 1994, the American film The Shawshank Redemption was released. Since its inception, the film has occupied the first place on the list of major film criticism websites and has become a veritable "king of movies". The film tells the story of a banker who was framed into prison and used his financial skills to help the warden transfer a large amount of embezzled money, and finally successfully escaped from prison, changed his face, and lived again. In fact, the absurd plots in movies often come from the most real life. In China, there is also a prisoner who relies on his ability to "plan the plan" and is very popular in prison. In the end, her story was even reported by the media, and became the talk of people after tea and dinner. So who is this prisoner? What crime did she commit? How did she use her housekeeping skills to make prison administrators "impressed" her?
The prisoner was named Tao Shiqin, and she had committed a felony of corruption. Originally, according to the criminal law of the time. A prisoner like her could not escape death. As a result, while she was being sentenced to a suspended death sentence, something happened to her that made everyone feel incredible. It is completely different from the tragic situation of most criminals in their childhood. On October 16, 1957, Tao Shiqin was born in Beijing to an ordinary worker family. Since the family had done a little business before liberation, their family was still a little savings compared to other people's families. In addition, Tao Shiqin is the only girl in the family. Since childhood, my parents and grandparents have been very fond of Tao Shiqin. Tao Shiqin even followed his grandparents since he was a child, and also learned the good skill of "planning plates" with one hand. When the family saw that she was so well-behaved and smart, they all felt that this child must have a great future. However, the development trajectory of Tao Shiqin's life later was completely different from what the old people in the family thought.
In 1973, at the age of sixteen, Tao Shiqin was admitted to a specialized school of finance and accounting in Hebei. Like most parents today. Everyone thinks that girls as accountants must have great prospects in the future. After all, accounting is a "meal of experience" in the industry. This profession is naturally more popular the older it gets. If you become an accountant, especially a public accountant, you will basically eat and wear in the second half of your life.
Sure enough, after graduation, Tao Shiqin went to a public hospital in Beijing as an accountant, and was considered a successful child in the whole compound. Compared with other children in the hospital, Tao Shiqin is beautiful, has a high education, and has a good job. This has also aroused the jealousy of countless neighbors. Soon, Tao Shiqin was introduced by his parents and friends to marry a young man who was a cook. After two people get married, life is very harmonious. Soon there were children. At this time, Tao Shiqin also had a higher pursuit of her own life, and she became obsessed with taking pictures.
As we all know, photography is a very expensive hobby, which is still the case today, not to mention the economically underdeveloped seventies and eighties. Therefore, Tao Shiqin often took the camera in the unit and went out to take pictures with a colleague named Wang Yongkang. When the photos came back, Wang Yongkang was responsible for the rinse, and Tao Shiqin was on the side to help, and the two people were very familiar with each other as soon as they came and went. By the end of the eighties, the economic situation throughout the country was very active. There are people everywhere who want to get rich. Compared with the "good" form outside, the work within the system begins to look a little boring and poor. In this context, Wang Yongkang also began to secretly engage in some "small actions" to make money. After working for a few years, Wang Yongkang made a fortune. He felt like a genius in business. He immediately decided: simply resign from the system and go to the sea to do business and set up a farm. Since then, his career has begun to develop in an orderly manner.
One day in October 1995, Wang Yongkang found Tao Shiqin and asked her to go to Xiangshan in Beijing to take pictures of autumn leaves. Tao Shiqin, who likes photography, naturally does not refuse the invitation of old friends. However, when she arrived in Xiangshan, Wang Yongkang did not talk to her about photography technology as before. Instead, he talked to her about his business: "Shiqin, we are also old friends for many years." As you know, I'm out there doing business now, and I'm doing pretty well now. Sometimes I wonder if I can pull you along. "Forget it, I've heard it's hard to make money." If it is really easy to make money, then isn't everyone in this society a million yuan household? Tao Shiqin smiled, she was obviously not so stupid. However, she also heard the meaning of Wang Yongkang's words. "It was really hard to start with, but now I'm not bigger?" Pull you along, won't you get up? Wang Yongkang smiled and waved his hand to Tao Shiqin, "I don't hide from you anymore, I am recently ready to spend 400,000 yuan to buy another farm." Keep the business bigger. When Tao Shiqin heard Wang Yongkang's tone, he was almost not startled by him. Four hundred thousand in the nineties was definitely astronomical. So she asked sadly, "Four hundred thousand?" Do you have so much money? ”
"It's true that I don't have four hundred thousand, but Shiqin you have." Wang Yongkang is also a clear card, and he looked for Tao Shiqin to take pictures this time because he wanted her to assist him in embezzling a huge amount of public funds from the original unit. At first, Tao Shiqin was still a little hesitant. Wang Yongkang promised that he was fully sure of this business, and as long as it took a while, he would return the money to Tao Shiqin and fill the hole in the unit's finances. Moreover, after the fact, he would also give Tao Shiqin a reward of fifty thousand yuan. Tao Shiqin was confused for a while, and really agreed to help Wang Yongkang successfully get a huge public fund of 500,000 yuan in the unit. Originally, Tao Shiqin thought that he only needed to sit and wait for the money to be collected. As a result, soon after, the news that Wang Yongkang had lost money in business came. It was like a thunderbolt on a sunny day, hitting Tao Shiqin. Subsequently, she was called to the office by the dean. For her embezzlement of public funds, Tao Shiqin did not intend to cover up, and she admitted it all. Subsequently, she was also taken away by the procuratorate.
In the end, the court sentenced Tao Shiqin to a suspended death sentence for embezzlement. Wang Yongkang, an accomplice in the case, was sentenced to 16 years in prison. Overnight, Tao Shiqin's hair turned white. She really did not expect that her momentary greed would bring such serious consequences to herself. After entering the prison, the prison guards carefully learned about Tao Shiqin's criminal experience. They knew that Tao Shiqin was also a money fan and was deceived by Wang Yongkang. Although she is guilty, she does not sin to death. So, after a total of several managers. The prison leaders finally decided to let Tao Shiqin, an old accountant who had worked in the hospital for many years, return to his old job in prison. In the future, the purchase expenses and expenditures in the prison will all be accounted for by Tao Shiqin. And Tao Shiqin also cherishes this hard-won job opportunity. On the night of receiving the task, she took the record book of the property account in the hands of the prison administrator and looked at it carefully.
After that, Tao Shiqin showed meticulousness in the financial work of the prison, giving full play to the experience and care of an old accountant. As a result, she had the most points in the same group of prisoners. She was also chartered by prison leaders to call home every other week. Tao Shiqin's husband not only did not divorce her after she went to prison, but also took the children to the prison to see her. This made Tao Shiqin more determined to accept the transformation and strive to obtain "parole" as soon as possible.
In 2000, eight inmates in the prison were "paroled" and returned home early for good performance. In order to strengthen the education of other prisoners, the prison leaders specially held a celebration meeting in the auditorium of the prison. One by one, these prisoners who were released on parole wept bitterly at the meeting, and they were very touched by this hard-won opportunity, and they all said that they would definitely change their minds and become people again after they went out. All this Tao Shiqin saw in her eyes, she thought to herself: I also want to fight for early parole home and be reunited with my family.
So she not only took over the accounting work in prison. When she's okay or has a relaxed job, she helps other inmates do what she can. Gradually, everyone in the prison had a high opinion of Tao Shiqin. Everyone said that Tao Shiqin was "a very smart and helpful person". During her time in prison, Tao Shiqin also met many female prisoners who had similar experiences to her own. Some of them have been deceived and have no intention of committing a crime, and some of them have no knowledge of the law at all, and they have no idea that what they are doing is committing a crime. However, now they all regret what they did, and they all want to get released on parole as soon as possible and get out of prison to reunite with their families and relatives.
Two years later, Tao Shiqin finally obtained the approval of the relevant departments for her outstanding performance and obtained early "parole". On the day she was released from prison, both her husband and children came to pick her up and take her home. The prison guards personally sent her to the gate. Looking back at this place where he had been staying for several years, Tao Shiqin had mixed feelings. She vowed that she would be a good law-abiding citizen in the future. There will be no more thoughtlessness.
The prison did not disclose Tao Shiqin's life after the protection of the privacy of prisoners. All that is known is that she later returned to the prison several times to bring something to her former cellmates and the staff responsible for guarding her. In Tao Shiqin's view, although this place deprived her of her freedom for several years, it also made her understand the true meaning of the law and friends. So, she will never forget every day she spent here. In fact, Tao Shiqin's original heart is not bad. He was simply misguided by a momentary greed. So this also fully makes us understand a truth. All wealth depends on the industriousness and wisdom of the people themselves. Any attempt to take advantage of administrative and legal loopholes to "take advantage" will ultimately only be a scam that "harms others and harms oneself".
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"Redemption in Beijing Women's Prison", Procuratorial Daily
"The Repentance of a Corrupt Offender" legal person
"Greed for money will eventually harm oneself" happy old age
"Women's Prison Archives" Sun Jingyan