Feldkirch Prison

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Outside view of the prison yard and the eastern wing
Feldkirch Prison seen from the east

The Feldkirch Prison is a regional judicial prison in Feldkirch in the Austrian state of Vorarlberg . The prison is currently the only penal institution in the state and has a capacity of 121 places in the main building as well as a branch office with 39 places in Dornbirn . The building is structurally connected to the Feldkirch regional court in the Tisis district of Feldkirch on the left bank of the Ill .

Conception

In the prison of Feldkirch persons for criminal and correctional with a total length of up to 18 months imprisonment and remand prisoners accommodated. In November 2015, a person was also housed in the Feldkirch prison who had to serve an original term of more than ten years. On the same day, 18 prisoners from the Feldkirch prison were also under "monitored house arrest", meaning they were allowed to serve their custody at home with an electronic ankle cuff . The release prisoners at the prison, so those people who during the day are allowed to leave the prison to pursue externally a regular job, are housed in the branch office in Dornbirn.

There is a separate department for female prisoners; juvenile offenders with a sentence of up to six months can also be accommodated. The prison has premises in the main building of the regional court and an extension in Feldkirch as well as a branch in Dornbirn . Nevertheless, with a capacity of 130% in August 2007, the prison was the most heavily used prison in Austria. As a result of the detention relief program in 2008, however, the facility's occupancy rate was reduced to below 100%.

About 98 percent of prisoners in the Feldkirch prison are housed in single or two-person cells. During the day they work in the in-house kitchen, laundry, carpentry or house workshop or are employed as home workers from external companies or as outdoor workers.

history

By the year 1947 in the exercise yard at the prison of Feldkirch were also non-public executions to the train performed. This had become necessary after the public executions had previously been whipped up into regular folk festivals and were difficult to keep under control for the judiciary. A double murderer from Altach was hanged as the last death row inmate in Feldkirch in 1947 , after which no more death sentences were carried out in Vorarlberg. The death penalty was finally completely abolished in Austria in 1968.

Extension

An additional expansion of the building complex in Feldkirch was originally planned as early as 2005 and at that time the Federal Real Estate Company estimated it at 12 million euros. This should significantly expand the previous capacity of 160 prisoners. 57 places especially for prisoners on remand, departments for outdoor prisoners as well as drug addicts were planned as well as a gym.

According to the Vorarlberger Nachrichten, construction should start in autumn 2008, which also stated that the first cells in the new wing should be occupied in autumn 2010. After an inquiry by the federal councilors sent by the Vorarlberg state parliament to the Federal Ministry of Justice in April 2008, the Federal Ministry of Justice stated that the start of construction would be significantly delayed due to financial difficulties. In 2019 it was announced that the entire new building plans would no longer be pursued and instead an expansion would be planned in the course of the year through a combination of new construction and expansion.

Web links

Commons : Feldkirch Prison  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Inquiry response (PDF; 113 kB) from the Federal Minister of Justice on the subject of prisoner numbers, conditional dismissals, dismissals in accordance with Section 133a of the Code of Criminal Procedure, charitable service and electronically monitored house arrest in 2011 .
  2. ^ A b Peter Freiberger: Bureaucracy slows rehabilitation . Article in Vorarlberg from November 6, 2015.
  3. ^ Siegfried Heim: Josef Gasser hanged in Feldkirch. In: Dietmar Tschaikner (Hrsg.): Hofsteig reading book. A literary tour through Hard, Lauterach, Wolfurt, Schwarzach, Bildstein and Buch. Unartproduktion, Dornbirn 2007, ISBN 978-3-901325-55-7 , pp. 153–154.
  4. ↑ Inquiry response (PDF; 17 kB) from the Federal Minister of Justice on the subject of an extension to the regional court prison in Feldkirch .
  5. ↑ Expansion of the prison is being examined. In: vorarlberg.ORF.at . February 16, 2019, accessed February 18, 2019 .

Coordinates: 47 ° 14 ′ 11 "  N , 9 ° 35 ′ 35"  E