On the Rise of Mordern Prison-reforming Thoughts

The situation of the prisons in Qing Dynasty was very bad. After the Opium War, with the loss of the extraterritoriality, the development of the international prison-reforming movement and the collision and fusion of the Chinese and Western law thoughts, the modern prison-reforming thoughts that took the bourgeois reformists as the representatives came into being. Although their thoughts were disordered, and didn't formed a thorough and complete system, the rise of prison-reforming thoughts prepared in thoughts and public opinions for the prison reform at the end of the Qing Dynasty .