Why do you have to shave your head in prison?

It is because in the supervision practice, it is found that the unified shaving of prisoners has a series of benefits.

1, which is beneficial to prevent prisoners from escaping.

Prison always takes preventing prisoners from escaping as the top priority. Compared with long hair, shaving your head is very easy to identify criminals. If the prisoner appears in the wrong place, such as the police room, power distribution room, near the prison wall, etc. They can quickly identify prisoners according to their bright bald heads and take necessary measures in time to prevent prison break accidents.

In prison, wigs and other items are prohibited contraband, so bald prisoners can be easily screened out if they want to join the ranks of non-prisoners and leave the prison.

In case of successful escape from prison, in society, prisoners can be quickly found and arrested according to their bald heads and other means.

2. It has certain psychological education function.

Prisoners have all violated the laws of our country, and they have been put into prison for reform only after committing crimes. In the traditional culture of China, everything needs a good start, and imprisonment is their new stage. Although they are undergoing labor reform, they also hope that this will be a new starting point for their lives, "starting from scratch". Shaving their hair means giving up common ideas, having a new look and accepting reform.

3. Hairdressing saves time, tools and expenses.

A prison usually holds thousands of prisoners. If you have a clean head, you only need an electric clipper to operate it, which has low technical requirements, high speed and high efficiency, and avoids the potential danger caused by using other tools such as knives and scissors.

Prisoners buy toiletries at their own expense. Ricoh head can save some expenses of toiletries and reduce the financial burden of families.

Fighting can be partially avoided.

A haircut for prisoners can reduce some behaviors of scratching hair and fighting, which is conducive to maintaining prison order.

5, can prevent possession of contraband.

Prisoners can avoid hiding some small contraband (such as notes, blades, nails, etc.). ) Put them in their hair and take them to places where it is forbidden to bring them in, so as to prevent the occurrence of safety accidents such as murder, suicide and prison break to the maximum extent.

6. It can prevent parasitic infection of dermatoses.

Thoroughly shaving your head can prevent the breeding and infection of skin diseases and parasites in prisons where a large number of prisoners gather, which is conducive to improving the sanitary conditions of prisoners.

legal ground

Code of Conduct for Prison Prisoners

Article 10 Maintain personal hygiene, take a bath, have a haircut, shave and cut your nails on time, and change clothes and bedding regularly.