Heilongjiang Net News (Reporter Shi Yansong) For Xiao Wu, a 17-year-old ex-prisoner, the happiest days in the past two years are these few days, because the police of the Heilongjiang Provincial Juvenile Correctional Institution (hereinafter referred to as the Juvenile Correctional Facility) have sent him hope.
On May 14, the Heilongjiang Provincial Juvenile Correctional Institution signed a contract with the Qiqihar Municipal Procuratorate to establish an education and training base. From back-to-school to skills training, from nothing to a skill. A 100-kilometer resettlement and education campaign has lit up the future of ex-convicts.
Xiao Wu, a native of Qiqihar City, was sentenced to 1 year and 5 months in prison in 2023 for intentional injury. "I was young and ignorant, and it almost hurt my whole life." In the following more than a year, Xiao Wu began his prison sentence reform career in the detention center.
"After I go out, will a person like me with a 'criminal record' hit a wall everywhere when looking for a job?"
"I don't have the skills, how can I gain a foothold in society after I am released from prison?"
Approaching his release from prison, Xiao Wu often told the police about the confusion in his heart. "Confused" and "helpless" are the words that Xiao Wu mentions the most. In order to realize the extension of reform and assistance to juvenile convicts serving sentences to "families, schools, associations, communities, and enterprises", the Party Committee of the Juvenile Detention Center has made a judgment in advance, made careful arrangements with the Qiqihar City Procuratorate, and the procuratorate has worked together to build a lamp for juvenile offenders and illuminate the way home.
At the beginning of May this year, Xiao Wu was released after completing his sentence. This time, the leaders of the party committee of the unmanaged institution sent Xiao Wu to the parents. Face-to-face conversations with Xiao Wu and his parents, from life after being released from prison to future employment, from daily life to family situation...... At the round table, a new life is about to begin, and the idea of relying on technology to gain a foothold in society is once again illuminated.
and Xiao Wu who were released after completing their sentences, as well as Xiao Chao. The establishment of the education and training base has opened a window for the lives of the two. Now, with the help of the Qiqihar City Procuratorate, Xiao Wu and Xiao Chao will come to the education and training base to learn CNC machine tool technology and open a new chapter in their lives.
As early as before, the detention center and the Qiqihar Municipal Procuratorate explored the creation of a youth education and training base integrating skill learning, employment guidance, and social assistance, so as to open up the "last mile" for minors released from prison to return to society. Uncustody facilities actively implement the "three sends" mechanism for ex-convicts to return to society, to their bases, and to their families, so that ex-offenders can seamlessly return to society.
Up to now, the detention center has reached a consensus with five prefectures and cities in the province to jointly build an education and training base for ex-offenders to solve the problem of resettlement of convicts serving sentences in their own nationality. It is expected that by the end of this year, training and education bases for ex-convicts will be established in all 13 prefectures and cities in our province to help juvenile ex-convicts move towards a new life.
(All names in this article have been changed)