劳役制度是统治集团凭借国家强制力为后盾,在拘束、限制犯人人身自由的基础上,强制犯人进行劳役,形成的制度。该制度作为一项重要的监狱管理制度,历经了一个由产生、发展到逐步完善的过程,具有丰富的内涵及特征。探讨劳役制度,对劳动教育改造人犯,有着重要的借鉴价值和现实指导意义。 The system of servitude is a system by which the ruling group forces prisoners to perform service and form labor by virtue of the force of the state as the backing and the restraint and limitation of personal freedom of prisoners. As an important system of prison administration, the system has undergone a process from birth, development to gradual improvement with rich connotation and characteristics. Discussing labor-service system has an important reference value and realistic guiding significance for reforming the perpetrators of labor education.