Chain penalty
The chain penalty was in the 17th, 18th and widespread in the 19th century type of imprisonment for very serious crimes.
The chain punishment consisted of tying the convicted person to the prison wall with an iron chain or of being restricted in his freedom of movement by a heavy chain attached to his feet, to which an iron ball was sometimes attached.
In the Prussian army , the chain punishment was carried out in a milder form than imprisonment in fortress construction. The most severe chain punishment was introduced in the Josephinian Penal Code of 1787 as a replacement for the death penalty ; in a milder form, it was found in the Bavarian Penal Code of 1813 and in other German penal codes.
The Austrian criminal law from 1852 still provided in Section 16 that those convicted of severe dungeons should be stopped with iron on their feet. On November 19, 1867, the iron penalty was legally abolished. From this point onwards, shackling prisoners was only permitted as a disciplinary measure in the event of particularly recalcitrant, violent or other provocative behavior, as well as for attempting or preparing to flee.
A tightened form was the crooked closure: Here the delinquent's two hands were chained to the ankle on the opposite side of the body.
Web links
- Chain penalty on rechtslexikon.net; Retrieved May 29, 2013
Individual evidence
- ↑ §. 16. Second degree . Criminal Law 1852 ( Wikisource )
- ^ ÖNB-ALEX - Reichsgesetzblatt 1849–1918. Austrian National Library, accessed on August 28, 2017 .