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Chishan Prison
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Xinning Detention center (Chinese: 赤山监狱), also known as Hunan No.1 Prison (Chinese: 湖南省第一监狱), is a prison in Hunan of the People's Republic of China. China's prisons are used to hold individuals who have been sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment, life imprisonment, or the death penalty. These prisons are managed by local prison administrations, which are overseen by the CCP's Prison Administration Bureau of the Ministry of Justice.
Background
Xinning Detention center (Chinese: 赤山çç±), also known as Hunan No.1 Prison (Chinese: æ¹åç第ä¸çç±), is a prison in Hunan of the People's Republic of China. China's prisons are used to hold individuals who have been sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment, life imprisonment, or the death penalty. These prisons are managed by local prison administrations, which are overseen by the CCP's Prison Administration Bureau of the Ministry of Justice.
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Operational
Figures from official sources · verified 6 Jul 2026 · methodology
Facility profile
Population held
Mixed/unknown
Opened
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Region
Hunan
Security level
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Death-row facility
No
Conditions
Named as a detention venue in 3 political/religious-prisoner cases documented by the Dui Hua Foundation's Prisoner Updates series (2018–Q1 2019). No individual case details are stored here in line with detainee-privacy discipline. (per Dui Hua Foundation Political Prisoner DB)
Visiting
No visiting information available.
Mailing
No mailing information available.
Practical info
Contact the operator's website for inmate-specific procedures.
Known issues
No major issues documented in our database.
Contact & address
No public contact details available.
Conditions Risk Score
Derived signal — not a judgement. How it's calculated
- Overcrowding
- 0/30
- Oversight reports
- 0/30
- Structural flags
- 0/15
- Death signals
- 0/15
- Conditions text
- 0/10
This facility scores 0. The national average across 1,005 scored China facilities is 3 — 3 points below national average.
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Data completeness
38%How many of our profile fields are populated. We surface this so families and researchers know the limits.
Sources
- Chishan Prison — Wikipedia
- Dui Hua Foundation — Prisoner Updates
- Dui Hua Foundation — Prisoner Updates
- Dui Hua Foundation — Prisoner Updates
- Wikipedia — Wikimedia Foundation
- Prisoner Updates -- Dui Hua Foundation — The Dui Hua Foundation
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation
- Wikidata (Q85752162)
- Wikipedia
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.
Cite this page
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World Prisons. (2026). Chishan Prison. Retrieved October 23, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/chishan-prison
"Chishan Prison." World Prisons. Accessed October 23, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/chishan-prison.
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