Penitentiary Archives

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The prison archive is an institution for the documentation of and information about law and legal reality in prisons , which was established at the University of Bremen in the early 1970s , but has been in Dortmund since 2012.

history

The archive was founded in 1979 in connection with the work on the first edition of the (alternative) commentary on the Penal Code (AK StVollzG). However, it was only named "Prison Archive" in 1983. The first employee of the archive was Denis Pécic , who at that time traveled from Hamburg every working day as an outdoor prisoner from the Moritz-Liepmann-Haus . It is thanks to him that contacts were established with the prisoner’s newspapers and extensive correspondence with individual prisoners was initiated.

The prison archive ceased its work at the University of Bremen on December 31, 2011. However, it is from the criminal and migration lawyer Christine Graebsch and Sven-U. Burkhardt continued at the Dortmund University of Applied Sciences .

Area of ​​responsibility

The prison archive deals with

  • collecting legal materials, court decisions and literature
  • Research on the prison system
  • the publication of information on prisons
  • advising prisoners on issues of enforcement law
  • supplying prison newspapers with legal information.

The prison archive is one of the sponsors of the Ingeborg Drewitz literary prize for prisoners .

Prison Archive eV

Since February 6, 2006, the registered association " Strafvollzugsarchiv eV" has existed , whose statutory objective is the "preservation and promotion of the scientific work of the prison archive at the University of Bremen". After the prison archive has been relocated, this funding is primarily used to maintain and support the archive at the Dortmund University of Applied Sciences.

Selected publications

  • Information on legal questions. In: Deutsche Aids-Hilfe eV (ed.), Positive in custody. A guide for people in custody. 8th edition, Berlin 2011, pp. 52–123.
  • Johannes Feest, prison archive: review, insight, outlook. In: Sven Burkhardt, Christine Graebsch, Helmut Pollähne (eds.) Correspondence in matters: penal system, legal cultures, criminal policy, human rights. Münster 2005, pp. 276–286.
  • Alternative symposium on the penal system, on the occasion of the publication of the 4th edition of the alternative commentary on the penal system (AK-StVollzG). Editor: Kai Bammann. Bremen 2001.
  • Johannes Feest, Wolfgang Lesting, Peter Selling, Total Institution and Legal Protection. An investigation into legal protection in prison. Opladen 1997.
  • Wolfgang Lesting / Johannes Feest: Repentant penal authorities. A legal factual investigation with the intention of legal policy . In: Journal for Legal Policy 1987, pp. 390ff.
  • Johannes Feest / Wolfgang Lesting / Lindemann (eds.) Commentary on the penal law, 7th edition, Cologne 2017.
  • Christine Graebsch / Sven-Uwe Burkhardt: Comparatively human? Outpatient sanctions as an alternative to deprivation of liberty from a European perspective. Wiesbaden: Springer 2015 (series of publications of the prison archive).
  • Association for legal aid in the penal system of the state of Bremen eV / Strafvollzugsarchiv eV (Ed.): Bremen Penal Law, with comments by Johannes Feest and Christina Lederer. Bremen 2016.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Johannes Feest : Prison Archives: Review, Insight, Outlook , Lecture at the 35th Annual Meeting of the "Nothilfe Birgitta Wolf eV", August 24, 2004.
  2. ^ Jean-Philipp Baeck: Fund for critical lawyers. At the University of Bremen, the last projects that corresponded to the reform-oriented entrepreneurial spirit are also disappearing. At the end of 2011, the prison archive will go to : the daily newspaper , November 1, 2011, accessed on November 9, 2017.
  3. ↑ Prison Archives, About Us: History, Motivation, Activities .