Penitentiary in Kleve

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Information about the institution
Surname	Penitentiary in Kleve
Reference year	1915
Detention places	234
Employee	141
Institution management	Udo Gansweidt

The Kleve correctional facility is a correctional facility (JVA) in Kleve designed for 228 inmates .

history

During the French rule in Kleve , the prison was set up on the Schwanenburg and remained there during the Prussian period. Because of overcrowding and poor expansion options, the city and the state sought and found a suitable plot of land for a successor to build. Construction began in 1913, and in September 1915 the buildings were ready to be handed over to the prison administration. Initially, the institution offered space for 250 prisoners, 210 of them for men and 40 for women.

During the Second World War , the prison was almost completely destroyed in a bombing raid on February 7, 1945. More than 100 people probably died in the process - Eastern workers , prisoners of war and imprisoned women. A mass grave with 84 corpses was later dug in the prison garden and buried in the Klever Friedhof in 1947.

The prison was closed until the early 1950s before it could be used again. For financial reasons, the new building was built on the foundations of the previous building. The women's prison was not rebuilt.

In the years 1981–1985, a two-storey gate and administration building, a garage wing and a new workshop building were also built. In 1986 the institute received a sports field. In 1996 a further extension was added for the sick area, the prison library, a multi-purpose room and offices. Later, a modern fiber optic network was installed and a fire protection refurbishment, during which an additional staircase was built.

Because of the proximity to the German-Dutch border, the proportion of foreigners is 63%. The proportion of prisoners incarcerated for drug offenses is particularly high . On September 29, 2018, the 26-year-old refugee Amed A. died in a fire in his cell. The Syrian was mistaken for an African from Mali and was wrongly detained.

Jurisdiction

The JVA Kleve is responsible for the execution of:

• Closed execution on men
• Pretrial detention , extradition and transit detention for adults
• Imprisonment ( Erstvollzug ) from 3 months to 24 months in men
• Civil and criminal arrest
• Prison sentences of more than 24 months to 48 months for foreign prisoners

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 -).

Web links

• Website of the JVA Kleve
• Enforcement plan for the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. (PDF; 1.2 MB) Ministry of Justice of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, April 1, 2010, accessed on March 7, 2016 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Kleve correctional facility: history. In: Website of the JVA Kleve. 2017, accessed December 7, 2017 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b} Niklas Preuten: Udo Gansweidt is the new head of the JVA Kleve. In: Neue Ruhr Zeitung . October 31, 2017, accessed December 7, 2017 . 
3. ↑ ( page no longer available , search in web archives: no archive version available )
4. ^ "Fatal fire in JVA Kleve: Doubts about suicide theory" , tagesschau.de, October 18, 2018.
5. ^ Enforcement plan for the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, (AV d. JM of September 16, 2003 - 4431 - IV B. 28 -). (PDF; 1.2 MB) Ministry of Justice of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, April 1, 2010, accessed on March 7, 2016 . 

Coordinates: 51 ° 46 ′ 36.6 ″  N , 6 ° 8 ′ 6.6 ″  E