Innsbruck Prison

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Exterior view of the Innsbruck prison (2011)
Frontal view from the street side (2011)

The prison of Innsbruck (colloquially as Zieglstadl called) is a court house jail in the city of Innsbruck in the Austrian state Tirol . It is located on the southwestern outskirts in the Sieglanger-Mentlberg district, right on the border with the municipality of Völs . With a capacity of 473 prison places, the prison is the third largest judicial prison in Austria. The institution has a special position among the penal institutions because it is the largest prison in western Austria.

Occupancy

The Innsbruck prison is a court prison and is therefore organizationally connected to the responsible regional court in Innsbruck. An average of up to 120 detainees on remand are held in their own large department.

As of December 31, 2011, there were 384 inmates in this institution. According to the state statistics of the state of Tyrol, a total of 164 employees were employed in the prison in 2013 , 29 of them women and 135 men.

history

In 1960 construction began on the prison on the site of the former Norer brickworks . In March 1967 the prison building for 409 male inmates was completed. One year later, construction began on an additional wing for up to 44 female inmates, which was completed in 1972. A general renovation of the existing building fabric took place from March 1999 to September 2003.

The latest extension was officially opened in October 2006. This means that prisoners can now also serve longer sentences of up to five years (up to then, as in any judicial prison, only up to 18 months). The detention center was expanded by about 50 places. In addition, there is now the option of accommodating young people in their own building.

Innsbruck Prison has had its own company fire brigade since June 2018. In March 2020, a new inmate at the Innsbruck prison developed a disease of COVID-19 for the first time in an Austrian prison . The inmate had been in the Ischgl site of infection prior to his custody and was accommodated in an access department separated from the rest of the detention center in accordance with a decree of the Minister of Justice in the course of the COVID-19 pandemic in Austria when he was admitted to the prison .

Training opportunities

Prisoners have the opportunity to do the following practical vocational training: butcher , locksmith , carpenter , confectioner , painter , plumber , mechanic . School education is not offered.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Inquiry response (PDF; 116 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. ^ Office of the Tyrolean provincial government, subject area provincial statistics and tiris (ed.): Statistisches Handbuch Bundesland Tirol 2014 . Chapter 13.1.2, p. 252.
  3. ↑ Extension inaugurated. In: tirol.ORF.at . October 4, 2006, accessed March 26, 2020 .
  4. ↑ CoV-positive prisoner in prison. In: tirol.ORF.at . March 25, 2020, accessed March 26, 2020 .

Coordinates: 47 ° 15 ′ 0 ″  N , 11 ° 21 ′ 12 ″  E