Picket arrest

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The bar arrest was above all a to 1832 in the Prussian army allowed for enlisted men serious prison term . The place of detention was nailed with triangular slats made of hard wood and had no storage space.

Since November 1, 1832, the bar arrest could only be imposed on prisoners who were in fortress detention ; since October 1, 1872, it has been completely lifted.

Bar arrest continued to exist as a disciplinary punishment in prisons and workhouses .

Web links

Google Books: Berlin. 1897. Illustrirtes Deutsches Militär-Lexikon Lattenarrest p. 415

Google Books: Military = Criminal Code for the German Reich, explained by C. Keller. Berlin. 1872 Picket arrest p. 31 and p. 45
Wolfgang Ayaß : Das Arbeitshaus Breitenau , Kassel 1992, pp. 211–213 of the PDF file 13.6 MB (description of picket arrest as a more severe form of punishment)
Prison statistics for the year 1892/93. Punishments. 25 cases of picket arrest in penitentiaries published in: Latest Mittheilungen . Ed .: Karl Homann. Berlin, Tuesday, March 13, 1894.