1 has different meanings.
The reception education center is a reception education center, and it is a place where the public security organs focus on legal education and moral education for prostitutes, and organize administrative compulsory education measures to participate in productive labor and check and treat sexually transmitted diseases.
A prison in a broad sense refers to a place where all prisoners 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 authorities
The highest competent department of the shelter is the Ministry of Public Security of the People's Republic of China;
The highest administrative department of prisons is the Ministry of Justice of the People's Republic of China.
3. The purpose of establishment is different.
Educational institutions for asylum should adhere to the policy of education, probation and salvation, implement legal, strict, scientific and civilized management, and make the educated people in asylum become law-abiding citizens with good physical and mental health through education, psychological correction and treatment of sexually transmitted diseases.
The principle of combining punishment with reform and combining education with labor is applied to criminals, and criminals are transformed into law-abiding citizens. The competent department of a prison is the Prison Administration, and the highest administrative department is the Ministry of Justice.
Both men can come out as long as they have served their sentences. Relatively speaking, the detention time is shorter and the sentence is longer. Article 2 of the Measures for the Administration of Reception Education Institutes stipulates that reception education institutes are administrative compulsory education places where public security organs conduct legal and moral education for prostitutes, organize them to participate in labor production, and conduct inspection and treatment of sexually transmitted diseases according to law.