Herford correctional facility

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Herford correctional facility
Herford correctional facility
Information about the institution
Surname Herford correctional facility
Reference year 1882
Detention places 355
Employee 240
Institution management Friedrich Waldmann

The Herford Prison is the second largest of the four prisons of the closed execution for young people in North Rhine-Westphalia . It has 355 detention places. The Herford correctional facility is located in Neustädter Feldmark between Werrestrasse and Eimterstrasse. The prison is therefore in a central location within the city of Herford.

history

The prison was built between 1880 and 1883 as a cross structure and opened as a Prussian penitentiary on September 17, 1883. In 1939 the facility became a youth prison. From 1997, extensive structural renovation took place in several construction phases. New prison houses, farm buildings, work buildings and an outside gate were built, and the renovation was completed in 2007. After the renovation and complete renovation, it is the most modern of the four North Rhine-Westphalian juvenile detention centers. Since the 1970s there were plans to rebuild the prison in the Diebrock district, which was incorporated in 1969 . However, for cost reasons, this was discarded in favor of the now almost completed renovation.

In 1984 the building was due to its panoptic system under monument protection provided. The entry in the list of monuments was later deleted.

Jurisdiction

The Herford JVA is responsible for the execution of custodial sentences in juvenile detention and pre- trial detention for young people and adolescents, for the higher regional court district of Hamm as well as for the regional court districts of Bielefeld , Detmold , Dortmund , Essen , Münster and Paderborn .

The competencies of the penal institutions in North Rhine-Westphalia are regulated in the execution plan of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia (AV d. JM of September 16, 2003 - 4431 - IV B. 28 -).

The proportion of prisoners on remand is around 25 percent.

Education and training

Herford JVA is one of the few institutions in North Rhine-Westphalia that also offers vocational training for prisoners. There are 157 trainee positions available. Carriers of the training is the Berufsförderungswerk of the German Federal union . Be formed:

The intermediate and final exams are held by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry (IHK) or the District Craftsmen's Association (HwK). The journeyman's letters, skilled workers letters do not indicate acquisition in a prison. For prisoners with shorter prison sentences, training is also possible in apprenticeship sections or in courses with partial qualifications, which can be supplemented outside the prison after imprisonment.

In order to enable prisoners to transition to the world of work as seamlessly as possible after their arrest, the vocational support and integration programs of the employment offices and educational institutions for former prisoners are used. In Herford JVA there is an employee from the "MABIS" (market-oriented training and employment integration for those released from prison). MABIS cooperates with authorities, educational institutions and employers and arranges training and jobs here after imprisonment.

Occupational therapy (ATM) is available for prisoners who have to get used to a regular life .

The institute has its own supply and production facilities. Carpentry and locksmiths, for example, offer one-off and series-made craft products. An example is the so-called "prison grill", which is known far beyond the borders of the region. Other workplaces are available in the institution's own operations (kitchen, clothes closet, heating & plumbing, electronics, etc.).

Jobs in the prison

177 men and 34 women are employed in the prison. Most of the employees belong to the general prison service , there are also social workers, psychologists, the medical service, pedagogues, clergy and lawyers.

Prisoners' free time

In cooperation with the Herford Music School , a musical was rehearsed in 2007 and performed outside the prison, including in the MARTa Herford Museum .

Trivia

In the 1960s, the actor's father Edgar Selge was the head of the prison. Therefore, Edgar Selge gained his first acting experience on the stage of the prison while he was a student at the Herford Friedrichs-Gymnasium .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Presentation of the authorities
  2. ↑ Organization of JVA Herford ( Memento from January 6, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
  3. ↑ Presentation of the authorities , accessed on March 7, 2016
  4. ^ Building description , in the Centralblatt der Bauverwaltung , No. 10, March 8, 1884, pp. 91ff., Accessed on December 26, 2012
  5. ↑ Information brochure: Law enforcement in North Rhine-Westphalia, publisher: Justizministerium NRW, 2008, p. 56
  6. ↑ List of monuments in the city of Herford (PDF; 79 kB)
  7. ^ Enforcement plan for the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, (AV d. JM of September 16, 2003 - 4431 - IV B. 28 -). (PDF 1,2MB) Ministry of Justice of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, April 1, 2010, accessed on March 7, 2016 .
  8. ↑ jail Culture> section JVA Herford. Ministry of Justice of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, accessed on March 7, 2016 .
  9. ↑ Information brochure: Vocational training opportunities in penal institutions of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, publisher: Ministry of Justice of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, 2011, p. 28
  10. ↑ mabis-net.de ( Memento from May 25, 2014 in the Internet Archive )

Coordinates: 52 ° 7 ′ 22 ″  N , 8 ° 40 ′ 39 ″  E