我国目前已成为监狱人口大国,监狱人口数量增长已经成为我国迫在眉睫的难题。导致我国监狱人口增长的主要因素有:被告人人数的连年增长,重刑人数的稳定,轻刑人数的居高不下,刑事立法改革加剧监狱人口增长,刑事司法改革并未为全面消减监狱人口作出努力。以消减监狱人口为目标,必须调整刑事立法、司法改革的方向,改变刑罚立法结构,提高定罪、量刑标准,妥善处理宽严之间的平衡,走刑罚轻刑化道路。 At present, our country has become a large prison population. The increase in the prison population has become an urgent problem for our country. The main factors leading to the growth of the prison population in our country include: the number of defendants has been increasing year by year, the number of penalties being stable, the high number of light penalties, the reform of criminal legislation exacerbating the growth of prison population, and criminal justice reform has not been made for the total elimination of prison population Work hard. To reduce the prison population as the goal, we must adjust the direction of criminal legislation and judicial reform, change the legislative structure of penalties, raise the standards of conviction and sentencing, properly handle the balance between strictures and take the light penalty of punishment.