Weiterstadt correctional facility

Information about the institution
Surname	Weiterstadt correctional facility
Reference year	1997
Detention places	815

The Weiterstadt correctional facility is a prison in Weiterstadt, Hesse .

history

The Weiterstadt JVA was opened in 1997. After twelve years of construction, the first prisoners were transferred from the Frankfurt-Preungesheim prison. The long construction period came about because the Weiterstadt JVA was almost completely destroyed by an explosives attack by the Red Army Faction in 1993 before it was planned to open . The damage was estimated at eighty to ninety million DM.

Today, the Joint Electronic Monitoring Center of the Länder (GÜL), the central monitoring point for all persons in Germany with an electronic ankle cuff, is located in a high-security wing .

Occupancy

The prison has space for 815 prisoners; it was temporarily occupied with over 1,000 prisoners. The JVA Weiterstadt is a pre-trial detention center and, for some years now, a penal institution, which initially consisted of seven accommodation houses (houses A / B / C / D / E / F and G). In 2001, an instruction department in container construction, House S, was also attached there. This is intended for prisoners with a remaining term of more than 24 months. The location of the admission department was originally intended for the construction of a hospital for prisoners, but could not be realized due to lack of money due to the explosion at the time. The institution also houses a church, a sports field and a swimming pool for rehabilitation projects.

The proportion of foreigners in prisoners peaked in 1999 at 83.12% of prisoners and has since declined to 63.8% in 2007.

On June 10, 2009 it became known that the serious criminal Thomas Wolf had been transferred to the Weiterstadt prison.

criticism

The opposition in the state parliament and the state audit office reprimanded Weiterstadt as a “luxury prison”. The auditors criticized the costs for a swimming pool, courtyards with decorative stone blocks, water and ornamental plants. The Minister of Justice Rupert von Plottnitz was criticized for the enormous costs with which a “Nobel prison” or a “rest home” for prisoners had been built.

Others

The external appearance of the Weiterstadt prison is shown in the science fiction series Fringe .

Web links

• Weiterstadt correctional facility
• Friends of the JVA Weiterstadt

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hardly anyone says “luxury prison” anymore . In: Darmstädter Echo , January 4, 2008.
2. ↑ 10 years JVA Weiterstadt - A prison in transition  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Pp. 30-31 (PDF).  
3. ↑ http://www.echo-online.de/suedhessen/template_detail.php3?id=756265  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: Darmstädter Echo.  
4. ↑ Modern prison or "Nobel prison"? In: Rhein-Zeitung .
5. ↑ Wissenschaft Prison ( Memento of the original from August 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: fringepedia.net.  

Coordinates: 49 ° 53 '38.3 "  N , 8 ° 33' 48.3"  E