Institutions Hindelbank
 Hindelbank Castle from the northeast |
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| Information about the institution | |
|---|---|
| Surname | Hindelbank correctional facility |
| Reference year | 1896 |
| Detention places | 107 |
| Employee | 100 |
| Institution management | Annette Keller |
The Hindelbank correctional facility (JVA Hindelbank) is the only women's prison in German-speaking Switzerland . It is located in the Hindelbank municipality in the canton of Bern . Annette Keller has been the director since May 1, 2011.
After a poor institution for women was initially housed in the former castle buildings , it was converted into a forced labor institution for women in 1896 . In 1912 it became a labor and penal institution for women and later the Hindelbank institution .
Besides convicted offenders and women without trial were administratively supplied housed in Hindelbank.
In 1976 the traveling woman Rasmieh Hussein died there after taking a lytic cocktail prescribed by the racial hygienist Benedikt Fontana .
Well-known inmates included Maria Popescu and Mariella Mehr .
After the first consideration had been given to giving up the Hindelbank institutions and instead building a new women's prison at the Witzwil institutions , the Bern cantonal government decided in 2013 to keep the old location.
Web link
- Portrait on the website of the Canton of Bern
Individual evidence
- ↑ "Pity mustn't be": A woman from Thurgau watches over the Hindelbank women's prison. Tagblatt.ch, accessed on July 15, 2019 .
- ↑ History of institutions on be.ch
- ↑ swissinfo: Rehabilitation of "enslaved children" , 9 April 2013.
- ↑ The shadow of Rasmieh Hussein . In: weekly newspaper 49/1988.
- ↑ Media release of the government council of March 28, 2012
- ↑ Media release of the government council of October 30, 2013