Bruchsal correctional facility

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Bruchsal correctional facility
Entrance and central building of the Bruchsal prison
Information about the institution
Surname Bruchsal correctional facility
Reference year 1848
Detention places 600
Employee 320

The Bruchsal correctional facility (formerly the Bruchsal state penal institution) is a correctional facility (JVA) in Bruchsal , Baden-Württemberg . Colloquially, the institution is also called "Stern zu Bruchsal" or "Café Achteck" (because of the octagonal prison wall).

history

The main building on Schönbornstrasse northeast of the city center was built in 1841–1848 as a “men's prison ” according to plans by the architect and high-ranking Baden construction officer Heinrich Hübsch . The model for the four-wing central building with its crenellated outer walls reminiscent of a fortress was the Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia (USA). After opening in 1848, the year of the revolution in Baden , the institution first took in the prisoners of the suppressed uprising.

During the time of National Socialism , the Bruchsal penal institution (together with the Munich-Stadelheim prison and the Stuttgart remand prison ) was intended to be the " central execution site for execution district VIII "; Johann Reichhart acted as the executioner in charge .

To date, the facility has been supplemented by several extensions so that over 600 prisoners can be accommodated on the ten hectare site. With around 320 staff in the various careers of the prison service , it is a medium-sized institution. It is still reserved for male prisoners, mostly those with long prison sentences. It enables around 400 prisoners to work in their own workshops. A branch is located in Kislau Castle, about 10 km away .

Prominent prisoners were the RAF terrorist Christian Klar and the serial killer Heinrich Pommerenke , who was imprisoned there from 1960 to the end of 2006. In 1991, Hans-Georg Neumann was transferred from Tegel JVA to Bruchsal. Since Pommerenke's death in the Hohenasperg correctional hospital in 2008 , Neumann has been the longest incarcerated prisoner in the Federal Republic of Germany.

On August 9, 2014, an inmate from Burkina Faso who was on hunger strike and had been in strict solitary confinement for several months was found dead in his cell. The then head of the Bruchsal prison, senior government director Thomas Müller, was therefore suspended from duty. There was a suspicion in the room that the prison staff let the inmate starve to death “with sight”. The Karlsruhe public prosecutor then initiated investigations against the prison director and the prison doctor for negligent homicide. The prison doctor was finally charged with negligent homicide, but the preliminary proceedings against the prison director were discontinued due to a lack of sufficient suspicion, as was the disciplinary proceedings. Thomas Müller now heads the Karlsruhe JVA .

literature

  • Julius Füesslin : The new men's penitentiary in Bruchsal based on the solitary confinement system in its buildings , 1854
  • Julius Füesslin: Solitary confinement after strangers and six years of personal experience , 1855
  • Julius Füesslin: The latest denigration of solitary confinement , 1861
  • Julius Füesslin: The basic conditions of every prison reform in terms of solitary confinement , 1865

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.swr.de/landesschau-aktuell/bw/karlsruhe/ermittlungen-in-der-jva-bruchsal-raetselhafter-tod-in-der-gefaengniszelle/-/id=1572/nid=1572/did = 14057090 / 1c3mgiq /
  2. ↑ http://www.ka-news.de/region/bruchsal/Hungerstreik-in-JVA-Bruchsal-Haette-der-Tod-verhütung-haben-koennen;art6011,1464950
  3. ↑ Prisoner dies after hunger strike. In: Spiegel Online. August 27, 2014, accessed December 5, 2014 .
  4. ↑ http://www.stuttgarter-zeitung.de/inhalt.gefaengnis-chef-suspendiert-abgemugter-haeftling-stirbt-in-jva-bruchsal.6c1b019f-4f4b-45ba-9623-0b0f37799998.html
  5. ↑ Lena Müssigmann: Death in Bruchsal prison: emaciated to the bones . In: the daily newspaper . ( taz.de [accessed December 19, 2016]).
  6. ↑ http://www.stakarlsruhe.de/pb/,Lde/Startseite/PRESSEMITTEILUNGEN/Staatsanwaltschaft+Karlsruhe+leitet+Ermittlungsverfahren+wegen+fahrlaessiger+Toetung+ein/?LISTPAGE=1224888
  7. ↑ http://www.stuttgarter-nachrichten.de/inhalt.nach-haeftlingstod-strengere-regel-fuer-die-einzelhaft.fde97a70-6bcf-45c4-8793-4c3ba8745b08.html
  8. ↑ Stuttgarter Zeitung, Stuttgart, Germany: Starvation in the Bruchsal JVA: charges against the prison doctor . In: stuttgarter-zeitung.de . ( stuttgarter-zeitung.de [accessed on November 16, 2016]).

Coordinates: 49 ° 7 '49.4 "  N , 8 ° 36' 9.6"  E