Chapter 22: The Warden of Prison
As soon as the wake-up bell rang at six o'clock the next morning, the door to the 2012 cell was opened, and Officer Wang and another officer, Zhang, who had met with Chen Donghui and was in charge of the cell, walked in.
Chen Donghui, Heizi, Lao Bao and the mouse had already dressed, and the quilt had been folded into neat tofu cubes and placed on the bed, just waiting for the prison guards to open it.
"Hello Officer Zhang! Hello Officer Wang!" shouted the four prisoners together.
"Chen Donghui, you hurry up and wash up, five minutes later, I will wait for you outside the water room. Officer Wang didn't talk nonsense, threw down this sentence and walked out.
"You guys are going to do as usual. Officer Zhang also left a word.
Chen Donghui hurriedly took the basin and went straight to the water room, washed his face and brushed his teeth in one go, and just arrived in five minutes, Chen Donghui, who was refreshed, was already standing outside the water room, in front of Officer Wang.
"Donghui, it's very fast!" Officer Wang said with a smile as he lifted an SS1A Shanghai brand watch on his wrist.
"Huh. Chen Donghui just smiled habitually.
"Let's go, talk as we go. ”
Chen Donghui followed behind Officer Wang, and walked outside the prison area under the surprised gazes of the other prisoners.
"I was going to call you again at half past six, but after thinking about it, the food here is so bad, you have to go to play ball with the warden, you have to eat something good first, and increase your physical strength, right? Hehe, it's not a good thing, it's just a little better than your food. ”
Officer Wang walked forward briskly while chatting with Chen Donghui gently.
"Thank you, Officer Wang. ”
When he met good policemen like Officer Wang and Officer Chen, Chen Donghui was not only happy, but he could only say thank you.
"You're welcome. Officer Wang walked ahead and waved his hand.
The night before, Chen Donghui asked Lao Bao, a pretending intellectual, to tell him about the prison warden, but he didn't expect Lao Bao to really know.
It turned out that before Lao Bao entered the prison, when he was working in the General Office of the Dongjiang Municipal Party Committee, he had contact with Luo Zhongwen, who was working in the Provincial High Court at that time, and because Luo Zhongwen's family was relatively famous, Lao Bao also knew some of Luo Zhongwen's background and experience.
Coupled with some things that he heard after entering the prison, Lao Bao changed all the information, came up with a central idea, three points of attention, and then carefully discussed Luo Zhongwen's journey on the road of the warden of Shipuzi from the ideological aspects, life aspects, system aspects, etc.
However, before Lao Bao could say a few words, he was threatened with his fist by the dizzy Kuroko. Lao Bao had no choice but to sigh and speak in the vernacular instead.
According to Lao Bao, the prison's activity room is a two-story bluestone house carved out separately, covering an area of two acres. The first floor is an activity room, and the second floor is the prison's library and two law classrooms.
When it was first built, the entire building was intended for use by prisoners.
It's just that later, when the prisoners came to this activity room, no one really exercised at all, and it became a place for fights and brawls, and the two table tennis tables became the bane of contradictions.
As for the law classrooms and library on the second floor, they are even more insignificant.
Half a year after Luo Zhongwen came here to serve as the prison warden, he transformed the entire first floor into a standard indoor tennis court with a length of 36.6 meters and a width of 18.3 meters, and two billiard tables were placed in the rest of the place.
Although the tennis court was built, because tennis is not popular in China, except for some professional athletes, only some college teachers and students, or some well-educated upper-class people can play tennis.
Luo Zhongwen is 43 years old this year, his family is very good, and his father once served as a member of the Standing Committee of the Huaijiang Provincial Party Committee and head of the Organization Department. After completing his undergraduate studies in China, he went to the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom to study for three years, and later went to the famous Stanford University Law School in the United States to obtain a doctorate.
In the past few years of studying abroad, there are two things that have had a huge impact on Luo Zhongwen.
One of them is tennis, and because of tennis, he met Bella, an English woman who is now Mrs. Luo, and has a baby daughter who has just turned eighteen, Dale.
The second of these is prison administration and prison law.
He was interested in prison because when he was a Ph.D. student at Stanford Law School, a classmate was sentenced to three years in prison for injuring someone on the spur of the moment.
However, his friend has only been in prison for less than half a year, and he was stabbed to death with a knife in an ethnic conflict between prisoners in prison!
Although after this incident, the stabbing prisoner was sentenced to death, and the guards, captains, and wardens in charge were all punished, but his friend died forever in prison.
Luo Zhongwen's friend is actually a good person, with a humorous personality and a kind heart, and after receiving a doctorate from Stanford Law School in the future, he will definitely become an elite lawyer.
But an impulse ends up paying the price with lives.
This incident touched Luo Zhongwen very much, in the United States, which has always flaunted human rights and law, there is still such chaos, how can we talk about China that is developing and exploring?
Since then, Luo Zhongwen has focused on prison management and prison law. And after getting his doctorate, despite the dissuasion of his family and friends, he returned to China with his wife and children. With the help of family connections, he first worked in the Provincial High Court for seven years, then served as the head of the provincial prison - Huaishan Prison for five years, and only last year came to Jiangcheng Prison, a famous city with "stone shops", to become the prison director.
After coming to Shipuzi, Luo Zhongwen immediately began a drastic reform, cracking down on cell bosses and prison tyrants, organizing prisoners to learn legal knowledge, reading books, cultivating sentiments, and even exploring the establishment of a system that allows prisoners' families to visit in prison and accompany them for eight hours, hoping to warm people's hearts, make prisoners better reformed, and strive to be released from prison as soon as possible.
It's just that although Luo Zhongwen's wishes are good, the facts have repeatedly broken his heart.
After the cell bosses in the prison were struck, the number of fights and brawls did not decrease, but increased! Because more people wanted to establish a position here with their fists.
The severe crackdown in prison, no one paid attention to these people at all, but took it as an opportunity.
Studying legal knowledge and reading literature books have become even more difficult to talk about. More than 60 percent of the prisoners here are like sunspots, and they don't know much about big characters, so if they are allowed to study law and literature, they are simply blind. Later, these people preferred to skip class and go to the quarry to smash stones than to sit in the classroom and study Shakespeare.
Prisoners like Lao Bao are willing to go to class, but everyone knows that Lao Bao and these people come to class to avoid labor, and no one really cares about literature.
The system of allowing the families of prisoners to visit in prison also came to an abrupt end because of an incident six months later!
A prisoner's wife was dragged to the bathroom by several violent prisoners who took advantage of the police officer's inattention, raped and violently, and almost beat her to death!
After Luo Zhongwen severely punished the violent criminal, he was heartbroken and discouraged, and since then he has no motivation, so he simply broke the jar and let it go.
After the activity room was converted into a tennis court, it was forbidden for prisoners to enter and became Luo Zhongwen's private domain.
In the end, Lao Bao still said hatefully, Luo Zhongwen is using his power for personal gain! He should be squatting in prison to serve his sentence!
Chen Donghui thought about the information provided to him by Lao Bao along the way, and came to the front of the police officer's dormitory.
"What do you want? Come on, come over and fill your stomach first. ”
Officer Wang turned around and interrupted Chen Donghui's thoughts with a loud voice.
"Hehe, I didn't think about anything. ”
Officer Wang didn't ask too much, and took Chen Donghui into the dormitory building and came to a second room with his right hand against the door.
There are two iron beds in the room, a green lacquered table, a large iron basin upside down on the table, other things are thrown in a mess, and there is a smell of stinky feet, which is really dirtier than the room where Chen Donghui squatted.
"Hehe, don't care, the place where the two big men live, I'm too lazy to clean up. ”
Officer Wang smiled apologetically, opened the upside-down iron basin on the table, revealing two enamel jars of millet porridge inside, six white-flour steamed buns on the plate, two eggs, and a large stack of cucumbers with sauce.
"Come over and eat, there's nothing good, it's all our police officers' own food, you're welcome. ”
Officer Wang greeted Chen Donghui and handed him a pair of chopsticks.
Chen Donghui didn't move, but a smile appeared on his lips.
"What's wrong? Don't be stunned! Time is tight, the task is heavy, hurry up and go to the activity room to warm up after eating. Our boss plays tennis very well, don't play so that you can't find the north when the time comes, let me be embarrassed. ”
"Officer Wang, can I ask you a word?"
"Okay, ask?"
"Officer Wang, why are you so good to me?"
Officer Wang was stunned for a moment, then grinned and said, "You kid! I am the people's police's concern for the people who have lost their footing, do you understand? Hehe, don't think about it, I don't have anything else to think about you." My old Wang is like this, and he is very good to other prisoners, he is soft-hearted, and he can't help it. Still, come to think of it, I seem to be a little nicer to you than anyone else. Well...... Maybe I think you look a little different from everyone else. ”
"Hehe, am I different from others? What's the difference?" Chen Donghui looked like he broke the casserole and asked to the end.
"What's different...... Officer Wang put down his chopsticks, thought for a while, and said, "You are very calm." You're only in your early twenties, and at your age, it's rare to see someone as calm as you, and I haven't seen much of it anyway. I have been working in prison for more than ten years, and I have seen a lot of people, like you, you are a talent, if you go on the right path, you should be able to mix well, and if you go on the wrong path, you will definitely be able to harm one party. I want to give you some concern for the party and the people, so that you can change your evil ways and turn to righteousness!"
Officer Wang finally made a joke, raised the Shanghai brand watch on his wrist and looked at it, his face changed, and he scolded: "Grass! It's 6:15! Don't be long-winded! Hurry up and eat! It's still five minutes!"
"Hey, okay!"
Chen Donghui responded, and was not polite, grabbed a steamed bun and ate it.