Pöschwies correctional facility

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The Pöschwies Prison (formerly Pöschwies Prison , previously Regensdorf Prison ) is the largest closed penal institution in Switzerland. It is located in Regensdorf in the canton of Zurich .

Visitor entrance to the Pöschwies correctional facility

history

The Pöschwies correctional facility was built between 1981 and 1995 according to plans by the architects Tanner und Loetscher . It replaced the Regensdorf penal institution opened in 1901 (which in turn had replaced the penitentiary in the former Oetenbach monastery ) and was put into operation in 1995. The Pöschwies JVA offers space for 397 men who have been sentenced to a prison term of at least one year, an inpatient measure or a detention measure . It employs 300 people. The average length of stay of prisoners in the Pöschwies prison is around three years.

The JVA Pöschwies once had the branches “Kolonie Ringwil” and the “Haus Lägern”. The "Kolonie Ringwil" was an open institution without security walls and has 60 prison places. It is no longer in operation in this form today. “Haus Lägern” has 23 prison places. These are available to the open penal system, the external labor unit in the penal system and the external labor unit for the implementation of measures according to Art. 59 StGB. It is located in the immediate vicinity of the Pöschwies correctional facility.

Trivia

The prisoner's choir of the Regensdorf prison released a record under the direction of Ernst Kunz in 1973.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Website of the Canton of Zurich about the JVA Pöschwies. Retrieved July 31, 2016.
  2. ^ Website of the Canton of Zurich about the JVA Pöschwies. Retrieved July 31, 2016.
  3. ↑ worldcat website. Retrieved July 31, 2016.

Coordinates: 47 ° 25 ′ 58 "  N , 8 ° 28 ′ 29"  E ; CH1903:  six hundred seventy-eight thousand one hundred and sixty-four  /  254069