Hohenleuben correctional facility

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Hohenleuben correctional facility
Hohenleuben JVA
Information about the institution
Surname Hohenleuben correctional facility
Reference year 1897
Detention places 370
Employee 159
Institution management Government Director Jürgen Frank
Website www.thueringen.de

The Hohenleuben correctional facility is a correctional facility (JVA) in Hohenleuben, Thuringia . It was established as a prison in 1897.

history

The first building was built in 1897 as a prison house. After the property was transferred to the town of Hohenleuben in 1921, the house became the office building and the mayor's apartment. From 1934 the building was used as the administration for the newly built women's prison.

From the end of the war to the end of the GDR (1945–1989)

From 1954 until the conversion to a correctional facility, the buildings served as a youth center, work education command and juvenile prison. During the GDR era, the prison had 600 places.

During the GDR era, political prisoners were held in the prison, i.e. GDR citizens who were viewed as opponents of the SED regime or who wanted to leave for the West. Like the other prisoners, they had to work in piecework . However, the so-called political prisoners in Hohenleuben were isolated from other criminals and therefore not exposed to the same psychological pressure as, for example, in Hoheneck . The prisoners in Hohenleuben also had comparatively shorter prison sentences. Therefore, the imprisonment in Hohenleuben among political prisoners of the GDR was considered the comparatively lesser evil.

From reunification to today's use (since 1990)

The theoretical capacity of the prison of 600 places in the GDR was based on an average area of ​​3.9 m² per prisoner. By recalculating the occupancy capacity after being transferred to the German prison service, the capacity was reduced to 234 prison places. After male and female adults and young people served prison and pre-trial detention in the complex between 1990 and 1999, the Hohenleuben prison has been used exclusively for the execution of prison sentences for male adult prisoners since July 1, 1999.

The prison now has 345 places for male prisoners in the closed and 25 places for male prisoners in the open prison. 159 people are employed. In addition to school education and training courses in German and English, various IHK degrees can be obtained in the areas of structural engineering, electrical engineering, metal technology, in the kitchen and as a painter and varnisher.

See also

literature

  • Klaus Bästlein (Hrsg.): Political criminal justice in the former GDR: depicted on selected individual fates. compiled by the state justice administrations of the states of Berlin, Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia. Hohenleuben correctional facility, Hohenleuben 1996, DNB 952673819 .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.thueringen.de/de/justizvollzug/hohenleuben/wir Retrieved on March 30, 2013
  2. ↑ http://www.thueringen.de/de/justizvollzug/hohenleuben/wir Retrieved on March 30, 2013
  3. ↑ http://www.thueringen.de/de/justizvollzug/hohenleuben/Kontakt
  4. ^ Axel Reitel: Juvenile prison system in the GDR . Köster, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-89574-585-5 , p. 15.
  5. ^ A b Frieder Dünkel, Sabine Lang: Juvenile prison system in the new and old federal states. In: Mechthild Bereswill (Hrsg.): Juvenile prison in Germany: Basics, concepts, fields of action. Forum-Verlag, Mönchengladbach 2002, ISBN 3-930982-88-9 , pp. 39-40.
  6. ↑ Birgit Schlicke: prison diary. Books on Demand, 2002, ISBN 3-8311-2911-8 , pp. 96-98.

Coordinates: 50 ° 42 ′ 46 ″  N , 12 ° 3 ′ 10 ″  E