Chapter 88: Life in Prison
All the materials have been prepared, what should I do next? Next, it is up to Xiahou Mingqi to do it, the investigation is Chen Jizhou's responsibility, and it was decided that Xiahou Mingqi will do it, after all, this is the business of the Beijiang Evening News.
"Lao Chen, I've read your materials. However, apart from the problems of Mao Junjie and Wang Yue, have the other people's problems been investigated? After all, there are too many contents involved in the report letter, and their situation is only the tip of the iceberg. "Xiahou Mingqi is too demanding, it seems that he wants to completely stir up this stagnant water.
"An investigation has been launched. President, we have limited manpower, and we only have a few guns, so we have no choice but to concentrate on breaking through one by one. Chen Jizhou expressed his determination to handle the case while complaining. Since you have put in the effort to do the investigation, you naturally cannot only let the boss know the results, but also know the hardships of the process.
"I'll transfer a few more people for you when I get back. I've been here for a month, and if I don't close the case in three months, it will be a dereliction of duty. Xiahou Mingqi gave a deadline.
"Understood, don't worry, I'll hurry up and investigate. In addition, how to deal with these people?" Chen Jizhou threw out a difficult question, which was the most headache for him.
Xiahou Mingqi understood what he meant, and whether to deal with Mao Junjie and Wang Yue only internally or to hand them over to the court? Xiahou Mingqi thought of going north, if it was handed over to the judicial process, I am afraid that the fate of these people would not be much better; if the newspaper handled it internally, it would naturally be much easier to handle, and it would be easier to make a decision whether they were fired or transferred.
No matter how it is handled, this is an offending matter, and Xiahou Mingqi and Chen Jizhou are very clear in their hearts.
However, Xiahou Mingqi thought of another thing: If the judicial process had not been followed, how could Xiangbei's case have taken a turn for the better? Since the newspaper had dealt with those people, Xiangbei would still have to go to prison for four years for them. Is this fair to the north?
That's right, this is the most basic righteousness, the bottom line!
"Let's go through the judicial process. Since these people have been involved in breaking the law, and it is ironclad evidence, they should be punished as they deserve, which is also a kind of compensation for Xiangbei. Xiahou Mingqi said.
Now that the president has given a clear answer, everything is easy. Chen Jizhou continued to investigate according to this line of thought. The entire newspaper seems to have been turned upside down, which naturally aroused criticism from many people. That's all for later.
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Let's talk about Zhou Xuecen's death and life in prison in the north.
After Zhou Xuecen's death, the police quickly conducted an investigation, and found no other cases of premeditated murder except for the conclusion that the owner of the car involved in the accident was drunk driving. In fact, this yellow-haired young man is also strange and pitiful, his family is not good, he came to the provincial capital city from a remote mountain village, and he has only been here for a few years, and he is still renting a house to live. This polo is a second-hand car he just bought from a friend some time ago.
Without murderous intent, it naturally cannot be treated as murder. Even if he is fully responsible for drunk driving, this yellow-haired young man can't get a huge amount of compensation. can only let him go to jail obediently.
After Nuoyi's death, Zhou Xuecen dealt with the aftermath, cremated the person, and put it in the columbarium of the funeral home. But Xuecen died this week, what will happen next?
It's not a solution to keep the body in the morgue unclaimed.
Naturally, the police have a set of methods. They retrieved the personal information of Zhou Xuecen's mobile phone to find her contact. Moreover, the selection of contacts is mainly based on Hedong City, and it is still a person who has been in contact with more frequently recently.
Eventually, the police contacted four or five people, including Zhang Ke, He Miaomiao, Chen Jizhou and Qu Changguo.
Hearing the news, several people reacted differently.
Zhang Ke witnessed the unfortunate experience of Zhou Xuecen's family, and she really couldn't think of anything more tragic than Zhou Xuecen's experience. But the current situation has exceeded her imagination - her best friend is dead! She hung up the phone, couldn't help herself, covered her face and cried for a long time.
People, seeing more things about dead people, their personalities will change, because they will see through many people and many things. Such an experience can make people dark and depressed.
He Miaomiao is just Zhou Xuecen's employer, and this matter has nothing to do with her. However, she has long since stopped seeing the relationship between the two as simple as being the main employee. She never even thought of quitting Zhou Xuecen, let alone the sudden disappearance of this person from her life and Felix's.
When Zhou Xuecen left her house, she had a vague sense of foreboding. Unexpectedly, ominous happened.
She sat on the sofa and saw the purse embroidered with Peppa Pig, and tears instantly flowed down her eyes. Felix didn't understand and hurried up.
"Mom, why are you crying?"
He Miaomiao touched his head and hugged him in his arms: "Because my mother has lost a very important person, this person is also very important to you." She will never come back. ”
She didn't know how to explain Zhou Xuecen's departure to Felix, which was a problem that could not be explained by science.
Chen Jizhou and Qu Changguo also knew the results the next day. Although both of them didn't have a taste in their hearts, they thought more about whether there was a conspiracy in the whole thing. The feeling of grief is naturally less.
This time, it was Zhang Ke who was responsible for hosting Zhou Xuecen's funeral. She never imagined that she would experience the pain of yin and yang twice in just a few years. People experience more death, and they seem to become numb, but in fact, their hearts are more gloomy. Zhang Ke even felt that he already had a tendency to depression.
The funeral was very simple, only Zhou Xuecen's family and friends came to the funeral home. After the body was hurriedly cremated, it was placed in the columbarium of the funeral home, next to Nuoyi's ashes.
Looking at these two grids, everyone couldn't help but shed tears, this tragic mother and wife are finally reunited.
Zhou Xuecen's car accident was only notified to Xiangbei's prison a week later.
According to the relevant procedures, after the incident was identified as a traffic accident, the Hedong City Public Security Bureau notified the Hedong City No. 1 Prison, and as for how to deal with it later, it was the prison's own business.
Ha Dong No. 1 Prison is the No. 1 Prison in Bac Giang Province, which is one of the few "100-year prisons" in the country and an open prison.
After the notice was submitted to Hedong City No. 1 Prison, the prison director Song Qingzheng kept holding the documents and did not hand them over to Xiangbei's correction.
Song Qingzheng has been working in the prison system for 18 years. Although prison guards are also public security officers, they are quite different from police officers.
On the one hand, although prison guards wear police uniforms and carry epaulettes of crutches, bars, and beans, the rhythm of working from 9 to 5 every day is really monotonous and boring, not only repeating the same work every day, but also stressful.
All in all, the most important thing in the profession of a prison guard is to be able to endure loneliness, after all, you have to deal with all kinds of prisoners every day when you open your eyes, you can still hold on for a year or two, and you can persist for ten or twenty years, which is indeed not something that can be persevered by will.
However, there are two sides to everything, and prison guards also have something to envy, this line of work is much easier than that of the police, and the income of civil servants is guaranteed, and the relationship between colleagues is simple.
From this point of view, Song Qingzheng was able to work in the prison system for 18 years, relying not only on perseverance and patience, but also on his love and loyalty to this profession. He has a set of effective methods in his work, such as talking to prisoners every once in a while, keeping an eye on the daily situation of each prisoner, and having the correctional officer report on the prisoner's situation at every meeting.
Of course, there are some criminals whose actions are deserved or even heinous in the eyes of ordinary people. But he believed that even the most vicious prisoners would be greatly less violent once they were in prison, and that if they were to be educated at this opportunity, the effect would often be twice as effective.
In addition, compared with others, Song Qingzheng's mind will be more meticulous and delicate. He prefers to think from the perspective of a prisoner rather than inculcate mainstream values.
Song Qingzheng kept the letter pressing, not because he was too lazy to deal with this matter. On the contrary, it is because he takes this matter too seriously and has some concerns in his heart.
In fact, after receiving the letter, he immediately contacted Xiangbei's discipline to find out about Xiangbei's daily situation.
"How is the transformation of the north?" Song Qingzheng asked the discipline.
Although he will pay attention to everyone's situation, after all, there are too many prisoners. Everyone's message can't be remembered clearly, including to the north.
"When I first came in, I was resistant, but now it's much better. Actively accept the transformation, and work very seriously. It's just that this person usually doesn't talk much, and it's hard to communicate. In addition, I later found out that he had a headache, which often flares up, and when it does, he is hysterical, and the other prisoners are very afraid. ”
"Oh, and this, did you prescribe medicine for him?" Song Qingzheng asked.
"It's on. Get him medicine from the hospital regularly. ”
Song Qingzheng learned from the correctional officer that Xiang Bei had been in prison for two years, and compared with other inmates, Xiang Bei had a positive and serious attitude, and because of his excellent writing, after he was transferred to Hedong City No. 1 Prison, he first trained with other newly admitted prisoners for three months, and then was assigned to the direct team of the Prison Education Section, responsible for editing the prison tabloid.
In Hedong City No. 1 Prison, Xiang Bei has been in charge of editing the "Hedong Prison Newspaper". The tabloid publoid publishes four weekly pages, with the front page devoted to news from the prison system, the second and third pages devoted to prisoners' experiences of serving sentences and rehabilitation, and the last page to publish prose or poetry written by prisoners. There were six or seven prisoners in charge of the editing work, and Xiang Bei was in charge.
The tabloid is edited from Monday to Friday. At six or seven o'clock in the morning, Xiangbei got up collectively with other prisoners, washed his face, brushed his teeth, and ate. Breakfast is steamed buns, porridge and pickles. After the meal, the prisoners took a small bench, sat in the "number" and waited for the correctional officer to come, reported the number, took the roll call, lined up in a neat line, and was led by the correctional officer to each labor post. To the north they were taken into the "editing room" and began to work.
At 12 o'clock at noon, the discipline came again, took the roll call, reported the number, lined up, and went north to be led back to the "number" for lunch. Lunch is usually rice, noodles and stew. In the afternoon, I repeated the morning's work, and returned to the "number" at five or six o'clock. After dinner, it was study time, writing a diary, writing about the experience of labor reform, watching news broadcasts, and going to bed around 22 o'clock.
There are no weekends in prison. On Saturdays and Sundays, there are no tabloids, and there is other work to be done to the north. There is an aluminum products factory in the No. 1 Prison of Hedong City, which produces aluminum pots, aluminum pots, etc., and has also done the work of making aluminum utensils to the north.
Days like this day after day. For Xiang Bei, the biggest gain in the two years in prison is probably that the news business has not been lost. One year, in the National Prison System Writing Competition, Xiang Bei's two essays won first prizes, one for reportage and the other for commentary. These two items alone are equivalent to carrying back two gold medals to Bac Giang Province.
However, such a repetitive and hectic prison life did not bring spiritual abundance and satisfaction to the north. Even many times, his mood will be extremely depressed and depressed, and sometimes after finishing the work at hand, the discipline will often see him alone in a quiet daze, not knowing what to think.
"It seems that he has not really integrated into prison life in the past two years. Song Qingzheng said.
"I always felt that he had a lot on his mind, and even in the exciting moment when he got the news of the award, the melancholy on his face could not be hidden. The disciplinarian said.
For his outstanding performances, those who should be included in the bonus points and reduced sentences are included. Remember, encourage him a lot. Song Qingzheng said.
"Understood. ”
"What do you mean I should give him this notice?"
"What's the notice?" the discipline also became nervous.
"His wife was in a car accident and the person was gone. Song Qingzheng said.
"What, his wife is gone?" the discipline looked shocked, "The only thing this kid is talking about is his wife and children." He said that if the child is gone, his life is over. The only sustenance is his wife. When he was released from prison, he went to live on the beach with his wife and pulled down this life. ”
"What can I do about it? To give or not to give?"
"This ...... I can't say it well. The discipline hesitated for a long time, "No matter who it is, this news is difficult to accept. However, the notice must be conveyed, and all we can do is try to comfort and enlighten him. ”
Song Qingzheng listened to the words of discipline and nodded, "That's the only way, you inform Xiangbei to come to me, and I'll talk to him." ”
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In the evening, Xiang Bei finished his work and went to the warden's office under the guidance of the correctional officer.
In the past two years, although Xiangbei has always felt wronged in his heart, and the pain of losing his son has never been erased. However, the most spiritual thing about prison life is the daily work of the prison tabloids. Sometimes, he would think about an interesting title until midnight, and although he would feel tired, he would feel a great sense of satisfaction. This sense of satisfaction has sustained him through these two years.
"Prison warden. Xiang went north to Song Qingzheng's office and reported very politely.
The influence of the environment on a person is too important. Any arrogant and domineering prisoner who stays in a prison environment that pays attention to discipline and rules for a year and a half will become as if he had changed his or her person.
"North, come, sit down. Song Qingzheng put down the materials in his hand, looked up at Xiangbei, and got up to greet him.