The teaching time of adult criminals is not less than 500 class hours per year; The teaching time of juvenile offenders shall not be less than 1000 hours per year.
Article 25 Criminals must receive ideological education organized by prisons. Ideological education includes the following contents:
(a) confession and repentance education;
(2) legal knowledge education;
(3) Civic moral education;
(4) labor knowledge education;
(5) Current affairs and political education.
Article 26 Cultural education organized by prisons shall be carried out in literacy, primary school and junior high school respectively according to the different educational levels of prisoners, and senior high school (technical secondary school) education may be carried out if conditions permit. Encourage criminals to study by themselves, take self-study exams in TV universities, correspondence universities and higher education, and provide necessary conditions for them to take part in studies and exams.
Criminals who have not completed the nine-year compulsory education prescribed by the state, are under the age of 45 and can persist in normal study, and should receive compulsory education; Encourage criminals who have completed compulsory education or are over 45 years old to participate in other cultural studies.
Article 27 A prison shall, according to the post skills requirements of prisoners working in the prison and the needs of employment after release from prison, organize prisoners to receive post technical training and vocational skills education.
Criminals who are under 50 years of age, have no skills and can adhere to normal study should participate in technical education; Those who have a skill can choose to learn other skills according to the arrangement of the prison.
Article 28 A prison shall organize ideological, cultural and technical education, and its teachers may be selected from the prison's people's police or appointed from qualified personnel in society.
For the cultural and technical education of criminals, you can choose criminals with good performance and cultural and technical expertise to help and educate them in this prison.
Article 29 A prison shall actively contact with the local administrative departments of education, labor and social security and employment training institutions, and obtain support and help in specialty setting, teaching arrangement, teacher training, external teachers, teaching and research activities, examination (assessment) and issuance of academic qualifications and degree (qualification) certificates.
Article 30 A prison shall actively use social resources to provide cultural and technical education to prisoners, and offer different training courses with different contents and types according to the employment needs of prisoners after they are released from prison.
Thirty-first primary and junior high school ideological education, literacy and cultural education, should use the textbook compiled by the Prison Administration of the Ministry of Justice.