Prison Frankfurt am Main IV

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Information about the institution
Surname	Prison Frankfurt am Main IV
Reference year	1959
Detention places	404
Employee	112 (without external employees)
Institution management	Nora Stang-Albrecht

The correctional facility Frankfurt am Main IV (JVA IV) is a prison of the state of Hesse , in which prison sentences are executed on adult male prisoners. The institution is located in Frankfurt am Main in the northern district of Preungesheim . In addition to a department of the open penal system with 157 places, the institution includes two departments of the closed penal system. When the Hessian Prison Act (HStVollzG) came into force on November 1, 2011, a release enforcement department was set up in the Frankfurt am Main IV prison.

history

Back of the prison on Goldpeppingstrasse

The correctional facility Frankfurt am Main IV was opened on November 23, 1959. Previously, the Rudolfschule, the predecessor institution in downtown Frankfurt , had been operated as the first open penal institution in Hesse since 1948 . The nickname Gustav-Radbruch-Haus was given to the institution in honor of the lawyer Gustav Radbruch , who was Reich Minister of Justice from 1921 to 1923 and, as a legal politician and scholar, campaigned for humane penal systems.

With the opening of the Frankfurt am Main I pre- trial detention center in 1973, the Gustav-Radbruch-Haus branch became a pre- trial detention facility . It was not until the end of the 1980s that the Frankfurt am Main IV prison became independent again.

The penal institution, which was originally operated with little external security, changed its character from 1999. This was preceded by a political debate about the high number of prisoner escapes in Hesse, which was the subject of the election campaign for the state elections in Hesse in 1999 . Due to the increased requirements regarding the safe accommodation of prisoners, the number of prisoners in the open prison decreased. As a result, two buildings of the closed prison that are structurally separated from the open prison were set up, which are characterized in particular by the concept of open cell doors.

treatment

According to the requirements of the Hessian Prison Act (HStVollzG), the prisoners are offered treatment in the Frankfurt am Main IV prison. For example, basic school education measures in the form of German and mathematics courses as well as literacy courses are offered in the closed prison. In addition, prisoners in the closed prison have the opportunity to take part in computer courses and obtain the European computer passport Xpert with a certificate of completion.

In the open prison, the treatment of prisoners is geared towards implementing educational offers and professional integration within the framework of the release. This presupposes the suitability of the prisoners for granting prison measures.

Due to the jurisdiction of the Frankfurt am Main IV penal institution for the execution of custodial sentences on traffic offenders, which is regulated in the execution plan of the State of Hesse, traffic seminars are offered in both closed and open execution, in which the prisoners deal with the consequences of traffic offenses and requirements for recovery develop the driver's license.

The correctional facility Frankfurt am Main IV works together with external addiction counseling centers, free criminal assistance institutions and external psychotherapists.

employment

In accordance with the requirements of the Hessian Prison Act on the duty of prisoners to work, the prison Frankfurt am Main IV maintains two companies for prisoners of the closed prison as well as auxiliary companies (chamber, kitchen, house workshops) with work opportunities for prisoners of the open prison. In addition, five workplaces are available in the nursery for prisoners in the closed prison. In addition to gardening, small handicrafts are carried out here.

Theater project

The Frankfurt am Main IV prison has been cooperating with the Frankfurt am Main University of Applied Sciences since October 2008 . Under the direction of the actress and social worker Maja Wolff , students from the Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences carry out a theater project together with prisoners. In 2009 the play Jason and Medea was performed for the first time , which was followed in 2010 by a performance of the play The Magic Flute as a music theater production.

Web links

• Prison Frankfurt am Main IV
• History accessed July 19, 2011
• Treatment offers viewed on July 19, 2011
• Job opportunities viewed July 19, 2011
• Prison theater

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} The establishment in numbers

Coordinates: 50 ° 8 ′ 59.3 "  N , 8 ° 41 ′ 56.1"  E