Siegburg correctional facility

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Siegburg correctional facility
Entrance area
Information about the institution
Surname Siegburg correctional facility
Reference year 1896
Detention places 544
Employee about 300
Institution management Wolfgang Klein

The correctional facility Siegburg is a correctional facility (JVA) in Siegburg designed for 649 inmates .

The servants' apartments built next to the actual JVA have been included as No. 215 in the list of architectural monuments of the city of Siegburg . The three streets of the settlement were named after the three Luxembourg prisoners of war who were shot at Uhlrather Hof .

history

Establishment and First World War

The prison complex was opened in 1886 as a royal Prussian penal institution. For this purpose, the abbey buildings on the Michaelsberg were first converted, which were then expanded to include a cell wing between 1889 and 1891. 1893–1896, at the instigation of the head of the Prussian prison system, Privy Councilor Carl Krohne , a new building was built on the present site. After completion, the institution offered space for 521 men and 204 women. These were housed separately from each other in two different building complexes. During the First World War , fortress prisoners as well as those convicted by courts-martial from Belgium and France were admitted. After the end of the war, the institution was confiscated and cleared by the British . From 1921 to 1926 men who had opposed the occupation of the Ruhr served their sentences in Siegburg . The authority was subject during this time France .

time of the nationalsocialism

From 1933 onwards, the Nazi regime determined what the institution should do. Prisoners previously housed in Siegburg were relocated to make way for political opponents of the regime. Mostly Dutch , French, Luxembourgers and Belgians were among the prisoners. But German resistance fighters , such as the later Leipzig history professor Walter Markov , were imprisoned in Siegburg. Some inmates did forced labor outside the institution at Dynamit Nobel , which belonged to IG Farben , or the Rhenish rayon . In 1941 all Jewish prisoners were deported to concentration camps. In 1944, the institution, designed for 700 people, was occupied by 3,500 prisoners. In the last months of the war, some prisoners were forced to serve on the war front . Shortly before the end of the war, the US Army liberated the institution, which was still completely overcrowded with 2,600 prisoners.

Since 1945

After the war damage had been repaired, the institution was able to accept male adults and juvenile offenders again as early as 1946.

Torture murder of a prisoner in 2006

In November 2006, the Siegburg prison hit the headlines across Germany. The occasion was an incident on 11/12. November, in which a 20-year-old prisoner was systematically tortured, raped and finally murdered in his cell by three 17- to 20-year-old inmates for hours by forcing him to strangle himself. This was presumably intended to simulate suicide , which could have led to easier detention for the perpetrators. The incident went unnoticed by the guards until morning, although media reports said a prison officer was still personally inspecting the cell after other inmates complained about the noise.

In the subsequent trial before the Bonn Regional Court , the men confessed. On October 4, 2007, the verdict was pronounced. Danny K., who was 17 years old at the time of the crime and was considered to be the instigator, was sentenced to a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison under youth criminal law, Ralf A. was sentenced to 14 years, and Pascal I, who was considered the main perpetrator, was sentenced to 15 years in prison. Contrary to what was expected, neither of the two defendants of legal age at the time of the crime was sentenced to life imprisonment, which the judge justified with the fact that the reintegration of both perpetrators was possible. The public prosecutor appealed against the judgment to the Federal Court of Justice , which was upheld on August 13, 2008. The decision on the sentence against Pascal I was referred back to the Regional Court of Bonn, where he was sentenced on May 8, 2009 to a prison term of 15 years with subsequent preventive detention. In its judgment, the Bonn Regional Court followed the view of the Federal Court of Justice that the prognosis for a successful rehabilitation of Pascal I was not based on facts but on assumptions.

The investigations against the law enforcement officers on duty were stopped in April 2007 after the public prosecutor's office could not find any legally relevant misconduct.

As a result, new debates arose on the subject of overcrowding and staff shortages in German prisons, especially after it became clear that the victim, who had only been imprisoned for theft, was housed in a cell with violent offenders. The North Rhine-Westphalian Justice Minister Roswitha Müller-Piepenkötter ( CDU ) came under increasing pressure, but still ruled out a resignation .

The incident was filmed in 2009 under the title Siegburg . A year later the act was picked up by the feature film Picco .

Incidentally, the incident resulted in the Wuppertal-Ronsdorf correctional facility for juvenile prisoners on remand and convicts being built in Wuppertal-Ronsdorf, which was in line with the standards of juvenile punishment, and was put into operation at the beginning of August 2011. In the medium term, this meant that no juvenile or adolescent prisoners were accommodated in Siegburg, but the institution serves exclusively for adult prisoners.

Jurisdiction

From August 2011, young inmates were gradually transferred to other institutions, as only adults are to be admitted to Siegburg.

According to this, the Siegburg correctional facility is currently (as of June 2019) responsible for the

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 -).

Education and training

The JVA Siegburg is an institution in North Rhine-Westphalia that also offers vocational training for prisoners. The JVA currently has 110 training places in various areas. 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).

Others

The Siegburg prison gives the public an insight into everyday prison life as part of the Podknast project . The primary goal of the project, however, is for inmates to deal with themselves and their crimes. In addition, it should be made clear to young people at risk that it is not desirable to sit in a prison. Podknast posts are also viewed in schools .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Prison in North Rhine-Westphalia, publisher: Justizministerium NRW, 2008, p. 58
  2. ↑ n-tv : Siegburg Torture Murder - 15 years imprisonment for Pascal I , October 4, 2007
  3. ^ Die Zeit : JVA Siegburg: Torture break only for the "Sportschau" , October 4th 2007
  4. ↑ a b Süddeutsche Zeitung : Siegburg: Torture Murder Trial - 15 Years Imprisonment plus Preventive Detention ( Memento of the original from May 11, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , May 8, 2009 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sueddeutsche.de
  5. ↑ Der Spiegel : Siegburg Torture Murder: “After all, I don't feel like ending up in hell” , August 1, 2007
  6. ^ WDR.de : Torture Murder in Siegburger: The Trial ( Memento from May 1, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), August 21, 2007
  7. ^ JVA Siegburg - responsibilities. Retrieved June 22, 2019 .
  8. ^ 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 .
  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. 34

Coordinates: 50 ° 48 ′ 19.5 ″  N , 7 ° 11 ′ 37.2 ″  E