Correctional Institution for Women Berlin

JVA for women Berlin (2008)
Information about the institution
Surname	Correctional Institution for Women Berlin
Reference year	1860
Detention places	150 (closed execution); 116 (open execution)

The prison for women in Berlin (JVA) is the prison responsible in Berlin for all forms of imprisonment for women. Due to an existing agreement with the state of Brandenburg , women from this state are also imprisoned here. The prison is spread over four locations in different Berlin districts. The main and reception facility is located in Berlin-Lichtenberg (Alfredstraße 11). This shares the closed execution with the branch in Berlin-Pankow (Arkonastraße 56). The other two institutions for open execution are in Berlin-Reinickendorf (Ollenhauerstraße 128) and Berlin-Neukölln (Neuwedeller Straße 4), with the Neukölln location also having a social therapy department (SothA).

History

With the emergence of the first district courts in the later districts of Berlin, prisons were also built. The first gender-segregated prisons opened in the 1860s. One of the most famous is the Barnimstrasse women's prison in Berlin-Friedrichshain . This was demolished in the 1970s in favor of a complex residential development. In 1881, a station in the Berlin-Charlottenburg men's prison was made available for the imprisonment of women in order to cover the prison conditions and the increased need for prison places. The women's prison in Lichtenberg was built in the 1930s; it was connected to the district court on Roedeliusplatz via an internal entrance . This direct access no longer exists today, since since the reunification in 1990 this district court has not dealt with criminal cases, but only civil proceedings.

From 1949 to 1985, female prisoners were also accommodated in the buildings of the army detention center in Berlin-Tiergarten . In 1976 a women's prison was opened in Berlin-Lichterfelde.

After four terrorists broke out of the prison in Berlin-Tiergarten in July 1976, a new building for a women's prison in Berlin-Charlottenburg was planned with funds from the West Berlin state budget. The foundation stone was laid in 1979, and the first occupancy of what is now the most modern and safest women's prison in Europe began in March 1985. Today this new building is part of the Berlin-Plötzensee prison .

With the reunification of Germany in 1990, an inventory was made of the situation in women's prison in Berlin, whereby increasing decentralization was noted. That is why the merger took place step by step: In February 1996, the social therapy (Sotha) moved to the new location in Berlin-Neukölln. In 1998, the reconstructed prison on Alfredstrasse in Berlin-Lichtenberg with the largest number of prison places became the main institution. In Berlin-Reinickendorf, a secondary facility for open enforcement was put into operation. As the last area in March 1998, the remand detention and the area for short-term convicts changed to the side institution in Berlin-Pankow.

Occupancy

Closed enforcement:

• The main and reception center in Lichtenberg: 90 prison places.
• The Pankow facility: 60 prison places.

Open execution:

• The Reinickendorf facility: 95 prison places.
• The Neukölln facility: 4 detention places.

The social therapy department for women in Neukölln has 17 prison places.

Web links

• Prison for Women Berlin on Berlin.de
• Enforcement plan State of Berlin

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Viewing in 2009