National prison (Liechtenstein)

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The Liechtenstein National Prison is the only pre-trial detention facility in the Principality of Liechtenstein and is connected to the National Police building in Vaduz . Shorter sentences were also carried out in the state prison up to 2017. However, after a working group found that the premises of the national prison no longer met international standards for this purpose, all prison sentences of Liechtenstein prisoners have since been carried out in Austrian (or, if released, in Swiss) prisons.

Conception

In the state prison, which is organizationally and structurally affiliated to the state police, only detainees on remand in accordance with the Liechtenstein Code of Criminal Procedure as well as detention, police and deportation detention have been carried out since 2017 . Since 1983, criminal prisoners have been partially enforced in Austrian prisons , and since 2017 exclusively on the basis of an international agreement with the Republic of Austria . After their final conviction by a Liechtenstein court, the prisoners are handed over to the Austrian judiciary for execution. The Saxerriet penal institution in the neighboring Swiss canton of St. Gallen , which, together with the Austrian penal institution Feldkirch , where the majority of Liechtenstein prisoners are housed, is the closest foreign prison to Liechtenstein.

The covering capacity of the state prison is 20 prison places, 16 of which are intended for male and four for female inmates. In addition, a security cell ( sobering cell ) and a multi-person cell for a maximum of nine people, which are used for police detention, are also housed in the detention area of ​​the state prison . In addition to the courtyard, the prisoners have access to a small library , a weight room and a small work room for the obligatory courtyard walk . In 2012 - when some prisoners were still imprisoned in the state prison - 60 people were imprisoned in the state prison over the entire year, who spent a total of 3,630 days in the state prison.

The prison was planned and built together with the police building in 1991 on the outskirts of Vaduz. Previously, prison sentences in Liechtenstein had been carried out in the prison cells in the basement of the government building . A planned expansion of the prison was rejected by the majority of the Liechtenstein population in 2004 as part of a referendum request.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Liechtenstein realigns the penal system. In: Liechtenstein Fatherland . December 13, 2017. Retrieved December 15, 2017 .
  2. ↑ a b Prisoners from Vaduz are accommodated in Austria. In: ORF Vorarlberg . December 14, 2017. Retrieved December 15, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Federal Law Gazette No. 354/1983 : Treaty between the Republic of Austria and the Principality of Liechtenstein on the accommodation of prisoners .
  4. ↑ Annual report 2012 (PDF; 999 kB) of the state police; Section 11: National Prison.
  5. ↑ Section 10.2: Voting in the Statistical Yearbook of Liechtenstein 2013 . P. 375

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