Legal analysis: 1, with different objects. Juvenile reformatory is a prison in a broad sense, a form of national execution institution facilities, and is established according to the characteristics of teenagers. In China, juvenile reformatories deal with juvenile offenders aged over 65,438+04 but under 65,438+08 who are sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment or criminal detention according to law. Prison refers to the place where all criminals are held, including prisons, detention centers and detention centers. In a narrow sense, a prison refers to a criminal who is sentenced to death with a two-year suspension of execution, life imprisonment or fixed-term imprisonment in accordance with the provisions of the Criminal Law and the Criminal Procedure Law. 2. Different degrees of punishment. According to the characteristics of teenagers, the juvenile detention center adopts a special way of educational reform, focusing on political, moral, cultural and technical education, organizing them to do appropriate light work, and ensuring their ideological reform and normal physical and mental development. Prison is a very severe punishment. Prisons in any country have the function of suppressing the resistance and destruction of hostile classes and forces, cracking down on crimes and punishing crimes. Penalty is the inherent attribute of penalty, and it is one of the tools for dictatorship to safeguard its own class interests and ruling order. 3. Different management units. Minors are directly under the jurisdiction of the judicial organs of all provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions, with one director, one political commissar, several deputy directors and political commissars. In addition to the basic establishment of prisons and reeducation-through-labor teams, functional institutions should also set up necessary teaching and research institutions and be equipped with teachers. The competent department of a prison is the Prison Administration, and the highest administrative department is the Ministry of Justice.

Legal basis: People's Republic of China (PRC) Prison Law.

Article 74 Penalties for juvenile offenders shall be executed in reformatory for juvenile offenders.

Article 75 The execution of punishment for juvenile offenders should focus on education and reform. The work for juvenile offenders should conform to the characteristics of minors and focus on learning culture and production skills. Prisons should cooperate with the state, society, schools and other educational institutions to provide necessary conditions for juvenile offenders to receive compulsory education.