Shanghai Ti Lanqiao Prison is situated at No. 147, Chang Yang Road, Hong Kou District, Shanghai City. It was built in 1901. It was officially used in May, 1903. In 1935, it takes shape into the present layout and scale after Going through building alteration and expansion. It was initially named “Shanghai City Peoples’Court Prison”in May, 1949. It was renamed “Shanghai City Prison”in August, 1951. It was renamed to the present name in May, 1995. It occupies land area of about 60 mu and the construction area is about 70 thousand square meters. In May 2013, it was classified as the “7th Major Historical and Cultural Site”Protected by the State level. In September 2014, It was listed and approved as the “1st Anti Japanese War Memorialize Facility”

　　The prison has over 600 police officers presently, of which over 30 of them are females; more than 500 are 1st line brigade police officers, more than 100 are section office police officers. The prison practices two tiers management system and has nine brigades classified according to the functionality of the inmates; it has 15 section offices classified into four main categories: “Reform Supervision”, ”Contingent Building”, ”Logistics Assurance”, and “Integrated Management”.

　　The prison house mainly heavily penalized inmates that has death sentence with 2 year reprieve, life sentence and with more than 10 years of fixed sentence. Being the only prison in the nation that is located in the mega city center area, the prison always insures the supervision safety as the major tasks of the prison. Based on the functional positioning of a strictly guarded prison for heavily penalized inmates, creating high, medium, low level precautionary area, classify and manage the inmates according to hazardous grades, crime types, reform performance and other factors. Continuously strengthen and improved all types of safety and defensive hardware establishment, set up prison command center, brigade sub-control platform, police officer on the scene sub-control point, a “3-tier vigilance structure”, implement dynamic safety management control mechanism to upgrade the prison safety management level. Till 2015, the prison has achieved consecutive 23 years of no inmate breakout record.

　　The prison always put educational reform as their main tasks. Set up broadcast within the prison, Community Antenna Television, long-distance learning, mental health counseling room and other education establishment, combine with the implementation of “5+1+1”education management mechanism,namely the inmates has 5 labor working days per week, 1 education day (Wednesday), 1 rest day (Sunday), provide education with content related to legal system, moral, policies, futures, etc., cultural and vocational education, inmates can attend 500 class hours annually. Resort to use mental rectification measures actively, over 40 police mental consultant presently, carried out mental consultation over 300 person-time annually. Vigorously strengthen the culture build-up of the brigade, utilize the artistic means to rectify the inmates, cultivated national prison famous cultural brand with decades of reputation such as “Xi Mei”, “Xin An Arts Group”, “New Lotus Poem Publication”, etc., this has effectively reduce the repeated offence rate after the release of the inmates. Explore the use of evidence abidance remedy and other rectification techniques, to put the rectification work of individual inmates in force, and explore the various work mode to classify and rectify violence criminals based on the cause of their crime.

　　The Prison pays attention to execute law impartially and understand its deciding effects in their work and thus it push forward managing the prison based on nomocracy. It builds up rules and regulations that contain over 180 internal working systems and 150 police duty processes. Consummate the point appraisal and living entitlement grading system. Strictly enforce the tasks for inmates on release, parole, temporary execution outside prison according to the rules of laws. Profound Prison affairs to the public actively, organize “Prison Open Day”regularly, inform the inmates, their family, public about the on-going prison work and listen to their opinions and suggestions via internet, interactive terminal, and other measures so as to step up the trust and belief of the law execution of the prison steadily.

　　The prison continuously strengthens the build up of police contingent. Persist in strict governance, give special treatment, technically strengthen and culturally educate the police force. Actively drive the professional development of the police force. Actively develop various types of vocational education training so as to improve the impartial and probity law enforcement standard of the police officers. Actively advocate the idea of “Culture vitalizing prison”, build up Police Orchestra, literature Society and other cultural organization, promote work discussion research so as to continuously deepen and widen the development of the prison.