Waldeck correctional facility

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Information about the institution
Surname Waldeck correctional facility
Reference year 1996
Detention places 382
Institution management Kirstin Böcker

The prison Waldeck is a correctional facility in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (Germany). It is located in the municipality of Dummerstorf in the Rostock district . About ten kilometers further north is the largest city in the state, the Hanseatic city of Rostock .

history

After the political change and German reunification , several prisons in the newly founded state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania were closed. These included the dilapidated and dilapidated prison in Warnemünde and the Rostock remand prison . They no longer corresponded to the federal German prison conditions. The rest of the prisons could hardly meet the need for detention places in the state, which led to overcrowding in the remaining prisons in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. As a result, the then state government decided to build the Waldeck correctional facility. The tight financial situation led to an unprecedented decision, not only in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, but in the history of the Federal Republic of Germany . For the first time, the planning and construction of a penal institution was pre-financed by a private investor, but this could not be compared with a privatization of the penal system. The investment company Wegner & Kludt oHG built the Waldeck correctional facility on behalf of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania for 85 million D-Marks at the time and rented it to the state for 30 years for seven million D-Marks annually without being involved in everyday prison life.

The Waldeck JVA, which was initially built on an area of ​​15,000 square meters and is visible from the Federal Highway 19 , was put into service on July 1, 1996 and was considered the most modern and safest prison in Germany at the time. At this point in time it was an institution of closed execution. Just two years later, on July 1, 1998, the prison near Rostock was expanded to include an open prison . Also Waldeck II , as the open execution of this correctional facility was named in part, was built with private funds and funds; but for a lot less money, as the existing supply facilities of the existing prison could also be used.

Despite the high security standards of this correctional facility, in June 2002 a prisoner managed the only escape from the closed prison system to date . A convict escaped in a cardboard box . A short time later, however, the fugitive was caught in Schwarzenbek .

Since the legislature made facilities of socio-therapeutic departments or institutions compulsory nationwide, another building was completed on the premises of this correctional facility at the end of 2004. It was the last phase of construction in the history of this institution. Such a required social therapeutic department was set up, which began its service in early 2005 and was charged with convicted sexual and violent offenders from all over the state. Half a year after the start of this department, it, and with it the Waldeck JVA, hit the headlines nationwide. A prisoner released from there relapsed just a week after being released. In the Rostock Heath , this former prisoner abused, raped and murdered a 16-year-old girl named Carolin from Graal-Müritz . The offender who had recidivized was caught, brought to justice and sentenced to life imprisonment with subsequent preventive detention. The facts and circumstances that led to the Carolin murder case were dealt with in the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania parliamentary committee of inquiry . Weaknesses within the judiciary were identified and the leadership of social therapy was replaced.

From 2008 to 2018, the diagnostic center responsible for all prisons in the state was located in Waldeck , which has been in the JVA Bützow since 2018 .

In order to start a prison sentence in July 2010, a convict used a horse and carriage as a means of transport. The correctional facility also took the horse in for care. When the detainee was due to be released in February 2011, the responsible veterinary office in Bad Doberan considered the horse too weak for the journey home. A towing service brought it to its now dismissed owner.

At the beginning of 2014, one of the investors for the construction of the JVA Waldeck - Stefan Kludt - announced that the construction contract had come about with the help of bribery. The then State Secretary of State for Finance, Wilhelm Burke, initially received 500,000 euros in bribes and later a job with the investment company. These statements led to public prosecution investigations. The current state government came under pressure because the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania twice failed to use the opportunity between 2007 and 2011 to terminate alleged immoral contracts.

In mid-2014, it became known through regional media that the Waldeck JVA was suffering from a lack of staff.

Factual and local enforcement jurisdiction

The basis for the jurisdiction of the JVA Waldeck is the enforcement plan (§ 152 StVollzG) of the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. This states that the JVA Waldeck is responsible for the execution of pre-trial detention on male persons over the age of 21 from the district court district of Rostock and the district court district of Ribnitz-Damgarten, as well as for the execution of prison sentences on male convicts with a prison term of more than six years and life Imprisonment is responsible for all district courts of the state.

Furthermore, prison sentences and substitute prison sentences are carried out in this penal institution on male convicts who have received their convictions from the district court district of Schwerin and Rostock . These are housed in the open prison and looked after there. The social-therapeutic department of JVA is responsible for adult male prisoners of the state in accordance with § 9 para. 1 and para. 2 of the Prison Act . Even Trim - backup, coercion - and coercive , and the enforcement of criminal arrest to soldiers of the Bundeswehr of the judicial district of Rostock and the local court Ribnitz-Damgarten can be accomplished in this prison.

In addition to these competencies, prisoners on remand from other district courts are admitted by court order . There is also the possibility of dangerous prisoners, who are particularly at risk of fleeing, to be accommodated in this institution in deviation from the execution plan. These can be brought in from other penal institutions in the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and also from other federal states.

capacity

The Waldeck correctional facility is divided into three detention houses - the detention house of the closed prison, that of the open prison and the building of the social therapy department. The three-story prison of the closed prison is divided into prison departments A, B and C. Together these three departments have a capacity of 234 prison places . The two-storey open prison, or station D of this prison, has a capacity of 100 and station E, the three-storey social-therapeutic department, has a capacity of 48 places. The Waldeck JVA thus has a total capacity of 382 usable detention places. This does not include the available cells in the medical area, entry and exit cells, a specially secured cell , cells in the disciplinary and security area , the cell for the disabled and also not the accommodation options for so-called returnees in accordance with Section 125 of the Prison Act .

Institution management

The first director of the prison was the lawyer and social worker Rupert Koch. Under his leadership, what was once the safest prison in the Federal Republic of Germany began operations. Frank Grothjohann took over the official business in 2009 and has been the acting head of the penal institution ever since. When he took office, he replaced Ralf-Gunter Nagler, the head of the authorities for many years. Kirstin Böcker has been appointed head of the Waldeck correctional facility since December 2018. She is moving from the Stralsund JVA, which she has developed into the flagship institution in the state in recent years.

staff

The staff working in the JVA Waldeck is made up of employees from a wide variety of specialist areas. These include administrative and law enforcement officials , medical services, psychologists and social workers. They are responsible for looking after and caring for the prisoners and organizing everyday life in prison. In addition, pastors , volunteers and external employees offer the inmates their help, advice and support.

Quite a few prison staff working in the prison system organize themselves in the trade union, in the Federation of prison staff in Germany .

Based on the ranks of the GDR People's Police , the prison officers in Waldeck are still very often addressed as master by the prisoners .

Accommodation of the prisoners

The inmates of this correctional facility are housed in solitary confinement rooms. This guarantees the legal right to individual placement to protect personal and privacy . Such a solitary confinement room is eleven square meters in size and is equipped with a wet room, bed, wardrobe, table and chair, wall shelf, pin board and a TV connection. The prisoners are also allowed to equip themselves accordingly. Typically, this primarily includes a limited-size television set , DVD player , CD recorder, and game consoles . But books , private clothing , pictures of relatives or food and beverages are also permitted to a reasonable extent, but must be applied for and approved.

In exceptional cases, detainees may also be in for disposal be accommodated standing double detention premises. These cells are about twice as large as the solitary cells and are very limited in number in the Waldeck JVA.

Work for prisoners

In the closed prison Waldeck there are so-called own operations . These include carpentry , locksmithing and metal construction . For the prisoners in these establishments there is an attractive opportunity to give their daily routine meaning and to do regular work. There they not only produce for the correctional facility's own needs, but also products for external customers . Among other things, they manufacture office furniture , smoking ovens , grills and play equipment for day-care centers .

Occupational therapy is also located in the social therapy department on the premises of the correctional facility . There, detainees (here clients ) are carefully confronted with simple activities, as work in this company has a therapeutic background .

More jobs for the prisoners offer themselves in the farms chamber, laundry , kitchen and library .

On each adhesion area of the institution to house workers employed. In most cases, these are assigned with cleaning tasks. Among other things, however, they are also assigned to the food distribution monitored by staff .

Prison newspaper

There is a prison newspaper called Fuchsbau , named after the postal address of the JVA Zum Fuchsbau 1 .

Prominent inmates

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ Axel Kintzinger: Watch television as a punishment. In: focus.de . April 7, 1997, archived from the original on July 31, 2012 ; Retrieved February 4, 2016 .
  3. ↑ House without a guardian. In: spiegel.de . November 18, 1996, accessed February 4, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Maik Brandenburg: Almost like a penthouse. In: welt.de . July 8, 1997, accessed February 4, 2016 .
  5. ↑ "Red light murderer" on the run. In: n-tv.de . July 1, 2002, archived from the original on July 16, 2013 ; Retrieved February 4, 2016 .
  6. ↑ The murderer escaped in the cardboard box. In: rhein-zeitung.de . June 28, 2002, archived from the original on July 10, 2012 ; Retrieved February 4, 2016 .
  7. ↑ Marcus Heyl: Cardboard killer caught. In: Hamburger Morgenpost . August 17, 2002, archived from the original on February 23, 2007 ; Retrieved February 4, 2016 .
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  9. ↑ Beate Lakotta : The improvement enterprise. In: spiegel.de . January 7, 2013, accessed February 5, 2016 .
  10. ↑ Schweriner Volkszeitung, August 23, 2011, page 3: The tough guys are sitting in Waldeck , accessed on August 24, 2011.
  11. ↑ Private website: Our Carolin .
  12. ↑ preventive detention: Lifelong for Carolin's killer. In: n-tv.de . November 15, 2005, accessed February 5, 2016 .
  13. ↑ Decision recommendation and status report by the parliamentary committee of inquiry to clarify issues in the area of ​​the Ministry of Justice. (PDF; 5 MB) Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania State Parliament , June 21, 2006, accessed on February 5, 2016 .
  14. ^ Horse "towed away" from prison. In: ostseezeitung.de . February 4, 2011, archived from the original on September 5, 2012 ; accessed on February 5, 2016 .
  15. ↑ Alexander Josefowicz: Privately built and publicly paid. In: Abendblatt.de . February 11, 2014, accessed February 5, 2016 .
  16. ↑ Helge Ahrens: Did the former State Secretary take bribes? In: svz.de . February 13, 2014, accessed February 5, 2016 .
  17. ↑ Public prosecutor's office investigates suspicion of bribery in prison construction. In: focus.de . February 13, 2014, accessed February 10, 2016 .
  18. ^ Construction of the JVA Waldeck: public prosecutor determined. In: ndr.de . February 13, 2014, archived from the original on May 26, 2014 ; accessed on February 10, 2016 .
  19. ↑ Stefan Aust , Thomas Ammann: Raid on ex-State Secretary because of JVA Waldeck. In: welt.de . April 12, 2014, accessed February 10, 2016 .
  20. ↑ Jörg Köpke: JVA Waldeck costs the country more millions. In: ostseezeitung.de . May 24, 2014, accessed February 10, 2016 .
  21. ^ Stefan Aust , Thomas Ammann: The sold state. In: welt.de . February 9, 2014, accessed February 10, 2016 .
  22. ↑ Lack of personnel: prisoners insist on their rights in vain. In: ostsee-zeitung.de . July 25, 2014, accessed February 10, 2016 .
  23. ↑ press release. No. 97/09. Ministry of Justice of the State of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , August 5, 2009, accessed on November 9, 2015 .
  24. ↑ New head takes over. In: nnn.de. December 14, 2018, accessed July 4, 2019 .
  25. ↑ New head of the Waldeck correctional facility appointed. In: welt.de. December 14, 2018, accessed July 4, 2019 .
  26. ↑ Markus Burkhardt: From the cell to the ring or Jürgen Brähmer's most difficult fight. In: welt.de . May 11, 2005, accessed February 12, 2016 .
  27. ↑ It's over for Karsten Speck. In: morgenpost.de. April 11, 2007, accessed July 4, 2019 .
  28. ↑ Marcus Japke: From the microphone to the judge. In: svz.de . May 29, 2012, accessed February 12, 2016 .
  29. ↑ Cinema star Semmelrogge grumbles punishment in Waldeck. In: ostsee-zeitung.de . January 14, 2013, accessed January 15, 2013 .
  30. ↑ Martin Semmelrogge arrives in Waldeck. In: Mittelhessen.de . January 15, 2013, archived from the original on February 2, 2014 ; Retrieved January 15, 2013 .
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  32. ↑ Ostsee-Zeitung, January 15, 2013, page 6: Eight months imprisonment: Cinema star Semmelrogge hums a sentence in Waldeck , accessed on January 22, 2013.

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