Ravensburg correctional facility

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Ravensburg correctional facility
Ravensburg correctional facility (behind a hill), seen from the town of Hinzistobel
Information about the institution
Surname Ravensburg correctional facility
Reference year 1982
Detention places 462
Employee 233

The Ravensburg correctional facility is a correctional facility in the state of Baden-Württemberg in the Ravensburg district of Hinzistobel.

History and buildings

The Green Tower was used as a prison from the 15th century until 1943. From 1747 to 1751 the Frauentor was expanded into a criminal prison, from 1837 to 1892 the Frauentor was used as an administrative prison.

From 1725 to 1806, Ravensburg was the seat of one of the two breeding and workhouses of the Swabian district (afterwards barracks, from 1823 as the “brother house” the municipal retirement and nursing home).

In 1876 a prison was built near the Katzelieselesturm , the so-called “Red House” due to its clinker facade, which was in operation until 1986 and was demolished on August 22, 1986.

From 1979 to 1982, for the first time outside the historic old town, a modern correctional facility was built in the rural district of Hinzistobel in the east of the city. In a second construction phase until 1986, additional buildings were erected there.

In 2011 and 2012 a new building for the gate guard was built. In addition, a new building was built with communal and family rooms for visitors and 21 prison places for women on the upper floor. The walled prison area was expanded by around 12,000 m².

Jurisdiction

In the Ravensburg JVA, mainly young men under the age of 24 are accommodated in penal systems under adult law, as well as young men who have been convicted under youth criminal law but are exempt from youth penal law.

In addition, the prison is responsible for adult male prisoners from the region around Ravensburg, male prisoners on remand from the district court district Ravensburg and female prisoners on remand from the district court districts Ravensburg , Konstanz and Hechingen .

There are 352 detention places available in Hinzistobel. 70 prisoners can be accommodated in the open execution of the outdoor prison facility on the premises of the institution, as well as around 40 prisoners in the Bettenreute branch.

Special occurrences

The Ravensburg Regional Court found in March 2011 that it was illegal to place a prisoner in an underground detention room for disciplinary reasons. The prisoner had found himself in a kind of "cellar dungeon" with no view of the outside, no fresh air and no daylight.

The Stuttgart Higher Regional Court had already reprimanded the Ravensburg JVA in an unusually clear manner. In this case, by order of the prison management, a prisoner was housed in a so-called “specially secured cell”, which was permanently illuminated with bright lights, even at night.

After two prisoners had committed suicide within a week in August 2016, the Ravensburg JVA hit the headlines again.

In March 2017, it became known that the Ministry of Justice was investigating allegations that a prison employee had distributed right-wing extremist data media to prisoners.

care, support

223 employees work in the Ravensburg JVA (as of 2011).

The institution operates two special departments for young first-time offenders and a treatment department for sex offenders. In each department, a “department conference” made up of officials from the prison service, a social worker, a psychologist and the prison manager is responsible for supervision.

The Psychological Service of the Ravensburg JVA consists of three psychologists.

A Protestant pastor and a Catholic pastoral officer are entrusted with the pastoral care of the prisoners as pastoral care workers.

Training and work

Branch office at Bettenreute Castle

Due to the high proportion of young prisoners, the school and the training workshops of the Ravensburg JVA occupy an important position in the everyday life of the institution.

The Pedagogical Service of the Ravensburg JVA offers a preparatory course and a secondary school course as well as a vocational school. The prison has workshops in which apprenticeships are offered for one-year training in the fields of metal, electronics, motor vehicles, wood and paint. Qualifications in ten professions are offered in the multi-year training courses (as of 2011). Theoretical lessons are given by teachers from the vocational schools in Ravensburg. Detainees who are not suitable for vocational training work in eight assembly companies for external companies, so-called "entrepreneurial companies", with a total of 120 jobs.

In the agricultural branch in Bettenreute Castle, about 12 km away (municipality of Fronreute ), around 40 prisoners work in open prison in agriculture, forest management and in a business. The branch develops around 125 hectares of agricultural land according to ecological principles.

leisure

In their free time, the inmates can organize themselves or pursue hobbies and other interests under professional guidance. The institute has a sports field and a sports hall. The sporting offer extends to ski breaks and climbing courses, but only for the prisoners who are already “relaxed” - who, after a special examination and approval, enjoy going out / vacation at the weekend and are about to be released from prison. The prisoners in the closed prison have no leisure time activities outside of the prison. Books can be borrowed from a prison library. Detainees can get involved in the prison newspaper locker .

Web links

Commons : Ravensburg correctional facility  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ As of 2011
  2. ↑ http://www.schwaebische.de/region/oberschwaben/ravensburg/stadtnachrichten-ravensburg_artikel,-JVA-Hinzistobel-wird-besucherfreundlicher-_arid,5075667.html
  3. ↑ Stuttgarter Zeitung, Stuttgart, Germany: Prisons in Baden-Württemberg: More and more criticism of the penal system . In: stuttgarter-zeitung.de . ( stuttgarter-zeitung.de [accessed on February 10, 2017]).
  4. ↑ Decisions: Other courts: detention conditions, order, requirements for reasons / OLG Stuttgart, decision of November 15, 2010 - 4 Ws 208/10 (V) - Burhoff online. Retrieved February 10, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Stuttgarter Zeitung, Stuttgart, Germany: Prisons in Baden-Württemberg: More and more criticism of the penal system . In: stuttgarter-zeitung.de . ( stuttgarter-zeitung.de [accessed on February 10, 2017]).
  6. ↑ Südwest Presse online services: inmate hangs himself again in Ravensburg JVA . In: swp.de . August 24, 2016 ( swp.de [accessed February 10, 2017]).
  7. ^ Stuttgarter Zeitung, Stuttgart, Germany: JVA Ravensburg: Right-wing radical CDs distributed to prisoners? In: stuttgarter-zeitung.de . ( stuttgarter-zeitung.de [accessed on March 31, 2017]).

Coordinates: 47 ° 46 ′ 8.3 "  N , 9 ° 37 ′ 55.9"  E