Augsburg-Gablingen prison (JVA Augsburg-Gablingen) is a state prison of Bavaria in Gablingen near Augsburg. It was inaugurated in 2015 and is under the responsibility of the Bavarian Ministry of Justice. The prison has 609 prison places for men who are in custody or serving a prison sentence.
The prison was headed by Zoraida Maldonado de Landauer until she was suspended in 2024.[1]
History
editThe existing prison Augsburg I and Augsburg II were already to small foor a growing number of prisoners. In 2011 the construcation started and in 2015 the new prison get in function.[2]
Allegations of torture
editThe head of the prison de Landauer also managed the previous prison, JVA Augsburg, in 2015. She committed a criminal offense for deprivation of liberty in 2015. She ordered that a pretrial prisoner Dennis W. who was in an induced coma in an Augsburg hospital continue to be shackled, even though a court had ruled that he should not be shackled. The ruling judge Lenart Hoesch then filed a criminal complaint against de Landauer. The investigation against her was discontinued upon payment of a fine. De Landauer continues to believe that her behavior is lawful and reiterates that the doctors' statements cannot be relied upon and that the prison administration is allowed to make an appropriate restraint order and not the judiciary.[3][4]
In October 2023, the prison doctor wrote an incendiary letter to the Bavarian Ministry of Justice of Georg Eisenreich (CSU). In it she showed how prisoners were unjustifiably locked naked in dark cells without a bed and no possibility of washing for weeks. She reports how prisoners were beaten by the officers. She also describes how the conditions are covered up before inspections.
Until October 2024, Eisenreich did nothing and said he knew nothing about the situation.[5] In November 2024 it became known that the Augsburg public prosecutor's office was investigating ten prison employees, including members of the special officers "security group"[6] and the deputy prison director.[7]
References
edit- ^ "Justizministerium stellt Leiterin der Skandal-JVA Gablingen frei". augsburger-allgemeine (in German). 2024-10-31. Retrieved 2024-11-26.
- ^ "Bayerische Staatszeitung". www.bayerische-staatszeitung.de (in German). Retrieved 2024-11-26.
- ^ "Gefängnischefin hat eine Straftat begangen". augsburger-allgemeine (in German). 2015-12-02. Retrieved 2024-11-26.
- ^ Mayr, Stefan (2015-11-13). "JVA Augsburg - Komapatient am Bett festgebunden". Süddeutsche.de (in German). Retrieved 2024-11-26.
- ^ "Gravierende Vorwürfe im Zusammenhang mit der JVA Augsburg-Gablingen / Bayerns Justizminister Georg Eisenreich informiert über den Stand der Aufklärung im Rechtsausschuss des Bayerischen Landtages und kündigt weitere Maßnahmen an". Bayerisches Staatsministerium der Justiz (in German). Retrieved 2024-11-26.
- ^ "10 Jahre Sicherungsgruppe JVA Augsburg / Merk: "Der bayerische Justizvollzug leistet einen unverzichtbaren Beitrag zur inneren Sicherheit"". Bayerisches Staatsministerium der Justiz (in German). Retrieved 2024-11-26.
- ^ "Nach Missbrauchsvorwürfen in JVA Gablingen: Eisenreich stellt Gefängnisleiterin vorläufig frei". Aktuell (in German). Retrieved 2024-11-26.