"There are still ten months before you go home, you have worked hard all these years, but the more you get to the end, I hope you can maintain your emotions, don't be impatient, everything in the family you are at ease." 」
On the occasion of the Spring Festival, Wang Dake's wife recorded New Year greetings for her husband who was released after ten months of imprisonment through video. She told reporters that over the years, she has pulled her children alone to grow up, with thoughts, complaints, and expectations.
In order to ensure the safety of prison epidemic prevention, since 2020, Shanghai Qingpu Prison has completely suspended face-to-face meetings with the families of inmates, and instead the family members come to prison or go to the places provided by the community corrections institutions to meet with the inmates by video.
In order to alleviate the homesickness of the prisoners, before the Spring Festival, Qingpu Prison decided to let the families of the prisoners record videos and give reunion messages, which can also persuade the prisoners to aim at the new year's reform goals and serve their sentences with peace of mind in the new year.
The surging news reporter learned that this is also the only prison in Shanghai that can record videos through relatives to allow the annual "reform activists" to receive New Year greetings from their families.
Qingpu Prison The pictures in this article are all courtesy of Qingpu Prison
Not a single point was deducted
Wang Dake, born in 1979, 42 years old this year, is the "reform activist" of Qingpu Prison in 2021, and was selected as the "lucky one" of the video meeting, which will be played to him in a one-on-one manner.
Li Haojie, a police officer in the fifth prison district of Qingpu Prison, told reporters that in early 2017, Wang Dake came to Shanghai to work, and after being introduced by his fellow villagers in the same village, he went to a clubhouse to "guard the door", and was arrested by the anti-pornography operation because of Wangfeng, and was sentenced by the court to five years and six months in prison. Wang Dake was imprisoned in April 2018 and went to Qingpu in June of the same year to serve his sentence. Because he performed well in prison, he received a six-month commutation.
"He was more positive during his sentence and was able to maintain peace with his companions and the police." Li Haojie said that Wang Dake can clearly recognize his illegal behavior and regret it.
Confession is the first priority in the rehabilitation of criminals, and if you do not confess guilt, everything else will be in vain after you return. Li Haojie recalled that Wang Dake, unlike some people, verbally confessed his guilt in order to reduce his sentence, but he still did not repent in his behavior. "He never said that I should not be arrested for doing this, that if I was sentenced, it would be judged, and the court's judgment should be."
After the dialogue with the police, when Wang Dake was alone in the prison, for a while he was very pessimistic. Li Haojie said that at the beginning, Wang Dake would be very depressed, listless and soulless every day. The police also sensed his emotional fluctuations and talked to him. Wang Dake talked about his family, his parents, his children, his sister, brother-in-law and wife, and the police understood that his lowness was a communication barrier with his family.
Jailed for this crime, his wife Fan Jiajia could not accept it. At first, she didn't want to answer a family phone call from Wang Dake from the prison area, and when she heard him talk, she only replied to him in half a day. Sometimes the husband wrote to the family, but she never replied. Due to the pandemic, they haven't seen each other for two years.
"Once I talked to him more deeply, in the first half of 2012 he called his wife several times in a row, and then he answered it, saying that he was busy. In fact, he knew in his heart that his wife didn't want to pay much attention to him. Li Haojie said that when talking about his wife, Wang Dake was more emotional and cried on the spot.
After that, Wang Dake frequently wrote letters to his sister, who was in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Shanghai, and received letters conveniently, and then asked his sister to comfort his wife. On the other hand, he tried to exchange his wife's forgiveness by actively reforming.
During the period of reform, Wang Dake was responsible for cleaning in the prison area, where it was dirty, he immediately went to clean up; he was also responsible for fetching water for 38 cells and soaking each 2-liter hot water bottle with hot water, once a day in the morning and once in the evening. This work, he insisted on for nearly four years.
In the daily code of conduct, Wang Dake also performed well. "Very few criminals have not deducted a point from the time they entered prison to the time they are about to leave prison, and some people will more or less be deducted points for hanging clothes randomly, not folding the quilt and other daily norms." The Qingpu police recalled that Wang Dake worked hard and complained, and in getting along with his companions, he was kind to people everywhere, and if others needed help, he tried his best to help.
Evil and good
In a small county town in the north, Wang Dake's wife, Fan Jiajia, is engaged in pharmaceutical sales. She is 42 years old, old and young, with a heavy family burden and greater work pressure. In recent years, she has worked almost 12 hours a day, and after Wang Dake was imprisoned, she could only rely on her to carry the family.
In the early days of Wang Dake's imprisonment, someone told her to divorce him quickly. But she didn't, in her mind, thinking that as the mother of her children, she couldn't let her son grow up in an unsound family.
"He himself is not bad, but the circle is not good, one step is wrong, lifelong wrong." At this point, as an adult, you can't blame anyone. Fan Jiajia told reporters that Wang Daren had a stubborn personality, did not go to school much, and had a very shallow legal awareness, which made him pay a tragic price.
At first, Fan Jiajia learned that Wang Dake herself had not figured out what was going on, and she thought it was ridiculous: it had only been ten days since she went to work, and suddenly such a thing had happened. Fan Jiajia felt that the sky had fallen at that time.
Fan Jiajia was the only daughter of the family, graduated from college, and Wang Dakecai graduated from primary school, there were certain cultural differences, and the marriage family did not support the marriage at that time. But she wanted to marry, so she bought a house by herself, and in her words, Wang Dake had nothing, and he "married" him.
Fan Jiajia said that later she worked better than Wang Dake, and invisibly, Wang Dake had mental pressure, he felt that he was inferior to Fan Jiajia, and his temper became more domineering and stubborn.
When Wang Dake went to prison, the child was one and a half years old. At that time, everyone advised Fan Jiajia to divorce Wang Dake, but she felt that she could not do that, and she could not fall into the well. "If I want to leave, I will leave after he returns." I'll still give him a chance to see how he performs, and if he's still doing nothing, there's no doubt about it. ”
Sometimes alone, she would think that it was really incredible that her marriage to Wang Dake could last until now. "Normally, a family like this is estimated to be broken, but after all, a child cannot live without a father." Remembering the child, she couldn't stop crying.
She felt that Wang Dake's starting point was not wrong, in order to reduce the burden on the family, in order to earn money, to do a good job in this family, but the way he chose was wrong. Her son is now more than six years old, and Fan Jiajia feels that there are still a few months to go.
In prison, Wang Dake would ask his roommates to help him write letters to organize language expressions, sincerely saying "I'm sorry." He will also admit his mistake in this matter.
Until the end of 2021, the police found that the couple would talk and laugh when they called, and the police felt that this was a positive signal.
The police asked Wang Dake: "Your wife is getting better and better for you, more and more affirmative of you, after you go out, do you have more confidence?" ”
Wang Dake said: "My wife is waiting outside, I will definitely not disappoint them when I go out, work well, and go home to take care of my wife and children." ”
From Wang Dake's letter, Fan Jiajia knew that Wang Dake would study junior high school courses every week in prison, often read the news, and coupled with the education of the police, he was improved in thinking and other aspects. She was also relieved to find that her husband finally dared to face it, and that he would only run away from the mistakes he had made before.
Fan Jiajia said that not replying to the letter before was also that she was not good enough. She knew that Wang Da was not good at expressing, he knew that he was wrong before, but he never said it verbally, let alone expressed it clearly. But now, he knows he's wrong and he'll say it, he'll apologize, he'll say he's sorry. She felt that he was also bitter, and that his life was still very long, and that this matter was not necessarily a bad thing for her family.
Fan Jiajia is in a much better mood now, and sometimes she will discuss with the people around her: "After he returns, how will I accept him?" Won't let him in? Fan Jiajia smiled, and she would encourage him from the perspective of a friend.
On the eve of the Spring Festival, Wang Dake received a video recorded for him by his wife
Near the Spring Festival, Fan Jiajia received a call from the police of Qingpu Prison, because his transformation was large, and his wife and family could record a New Year greeting video for him.
Fan Jiajia is very grateful for this opportunity, she mentioned in the video that everything is fine at home, so that Wang Dake can rest assured. "The most reassuring thing for you is your son, who will be in the first grade in the second half of next year, and my parents and brothers and sisters are looking forward to your early return, wishing you a happy new year, tiger and tiger, and loving you."
On January 29, on the eve of the Spring Festival, Wang Dake received a video recording of his beloved wife. He wore a prison uniform and sat in the Aisheng Media Center of Qingpu Prison accompanied by the prison police.
The police saw that Wang Dake, who usually wants to be strong and face-saving, burst into tears after hearing his wife's advice, only silent, bowing his head to wipe his tears.
(Pseudonyms of prisoners and their wives)