Many Prisoners Understand the Truth about Falun Dafa

(Minghui.org) I was arrested and sentenced to four years in prison for distributing materials about the persecution of Falun Dafa. In prison, I insisted on reciting the Fa from memory and sending righteous thoughts every day. I always remembered that I was a Falun Dafa practitioner, and I clarified the truth to those around me and helped them withdraw from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its youth organizations. I discovered that, with continued efforts by detained practitioners, many prisoners have understood the truth and are helping detained Dafa disciples.

Because I refused to be “transformed,” I was put in the “strict supervision” section of the prison. The guards required the three of us to always be together and supervise each other. I thought, “I am a Dafa practitioner, and I have the final say. I have to do what Master told me to do and save the predestined people here.”

I treated everyone there well. I told the prisoner in charge, “Although we didn’t know each other before, we are now even closer than family, because our families are not around, and we are together 24 hours a day. We should take care of each other.” She agreed and said, “Falun Dafa practitioners are very good people. When I was in the detention center, I wasn’t able to get in touch with my family, and a Dafa practitioner often helped me with everything. Later on, after she was released, she called my family and told them about my situation. I am very grateful to her.” Because fellow practitioners have done so well, many prisoners now have good relationships with Dafa practitioners, and the environment inside the prison has gotten better.

I clarified the truth everywhere I went in prison—in the workshop, in the bathroom, and at meals. Some of the prisoners even took the initiative to ask me to tell them the truth about Dafa. Some also asked me to recite the Fa to them, such as On Dafa and Hong Yin. Some of the prisoners were able to memorize and recite them.

I like the song “Be Saved” a lot, and many people learned it from me. One day I was doing the sitting meditation and suddenly heard someone singing it. I opened my eyes and saw a prisoner looking at me with a smile as she sang. I also smiled.

Last October, a fellow practitioner was released. As she left, the prisoners in her section all shouted, “Be safe! Be well! I wish you all the best! Please don’t ever come back here again!” I was moved to tears. It really showed the power of Dafa. I told a long-term prisoner how touching their send-off was, and she said, “That’s no surprise, because Falun Dafa practitioners are so great. She was such a good person. She was usually quiet and didn’t talk too much. But she helped anyone in trouble. There were two young prisoners who had no money, and she often took care of them and bought them things to eat. Before she left, she divided up her belongings and gave them away according to who needed what. She gave away her bedding and blanket the night before she left, and she slept on the hard bed. She is such a kind person.

“I have been here for a long time due to my long sentence, and I know everything that goes on in here. Beginning in 2000, many Falun Dafa practitioners were arrested. The guards once ordered me to monitor a practitioner. I saw that she was a nice person, and I asked her why she was here. She told me about the persecution and how good Falun Gong [also called Falun Dafa] was. Later on, the guards told me to intimidate her, and I refused, so they then no longer had me monitor her. Another prisoner was a very bad person, and she often harassed and reported that practitioner. I told that prisoner that it was a crime to pick on people like that. As it turned out, my sentence was reduced, and another person who was kind to Dafa practitioners also had her sentence reduced. But that bad prisoner’s sentence was not reduced; she also got sick and ended up in the hospital. We all thought that she getting payback for what she did.”

I was really moved. No matter what crime a person has committed in ordinary society, as long as she has a correct attitude about Dafa, she has chosen a great future for herself. I asked her to sincerely recite, “Falun Dafa is good, Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good.” She said, “I do—every day! I knew it even before I ended up in here. I was once hospitalized, and I just recited those two phrases and was discharged in no time. I have a relative who practices Falun Dafa. After I get out, I will learn Dafa, too!” I said, “If you have that wish, Master will help you!” I was so happy for her.

Some of the prisoners helped me. There was an older lady I met shortly after I arrived, and we discovered that we were from the same town. She said, “If you need anything, just let me know.” I asked her to help me get a message to a fellow practitioner in the prison, because Dafa practitioners were not allowed to talk to each other. She did and then brought me what I needed from the other practitioner.

One day, I was transferred to her cell, and she was the head of the cell. I was usually slow at washing up, and another person in the cell said to me, “The head of the cell has a bad temper. If someone is slow like you, she will start cursing, but for some reason she doesn’t curse when you are slow. It is very strange.” She took care of me everywhere and often said that, if I wanted anything to eat, she would buy it for me. She had withdrawn from the CCP and its youth organizations. Later, I was transferred to another cell, and she told her friend there to also take care of me.

There was another prisoner who was the head of the cell that I was in for a period of time. She was very kindhearted and often helped an older fellow practitioner wash her sheets and blanket cover. She also helped me a lot. That older practitioner left me a pair of winter shoes under my bed when she was released. But later on, the head of the cell accidentally threw them in the trash. It was winter, and I couldn’t find the shoes, so I asked her about it. She remembered the shoes and went and found them in the trash. I was really touched. It was all because fellow practitioners have done so well that regular people would do such things.

Another prisoner was a former police officer. When she was a police officer, her supervisor told her to assist in harvesting organs from executed prisoners. Because she wouldn’t do it, her supervisor retaliated against her and she ended up in prison. We were in the same section, and I clarified the truth to her. She gradually understood, and we became good friends. Her health was not good and she didn’t have much to eat, so I often helped her. The section lead was once making things difficult for me, and she said to the section lead, “Why are you doing that to her? If you follow the CCP, sooner or later you are going to fall hard!” She told me, “Let me know if anyone bullies you, and I’ll take care of it.”

The morning I was released, I said goodbye to several people and asked them to remember, “Falun Dafa is good, Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good.” They all agreed, told me not to worry, and said they would take care of the senior Dafa practitioners. When I walked up to one prisoner, I hesitated and didn’t know what to say, because even though she was a good person, she would not quit the CCP. She could see I was a little sad and said, “Why don’t you say goodbye to me?” I quickly walked up to her and said, “I was afraid of your stubbornness.” She smiled and said, “I won’t be stubborn today. What do you want to tell me?” I said, “I hope you get home safely, and I hope that you will remember ‘Falun Dafa is good Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good.’” She said, “Okay, I will remember it. Thank you!”

When I finished changing clothes in the office and was on my way out, people from the entire section waved goodbye to me and shouted, “Don’t ever come back!” I was very moved and felt really happy for them.

When I returned home, the pandemic was just getting bad in my area. As I waited in line to take the PCR test, many people greeted me and asked me how I was doing. One of them used to be a prison official. She came up to me and said, “You were imprisoned not because you committed a crime, but because you practice Falun Dafa, so there is nothing to be ashamed of.” She had withdrawn from the CCP a long time ago.

I was very happy for these beings who understood the truth!