• The prisons in Germany are run solely by the federal states but governed by a federal law. The aim of prison confinement in Germany is twofold: emphasis...
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  • San Miguel Prison, Santiago Santiago Public Prison (closed), Santiago List of prisons in Anhui List of prisons in Beijing List of prisons in Chongqing...
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    18528 Spandau Prison was a former military prison located in the Spandau borough of West Berlin (present-day Berlin, Germany). Built in 1876, it became...
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    prosecutor's office) Crime in Germany Prisons in Germany List of killings by law enforcement officers in Germany Legal aid in Germany This article incorporates...
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  • sentences of two years or more; provincial prisons are responsible for those with shorter terms. The prisons in Germany are run solely by the federal states...
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    Stadelheim Prison (German: Justizvollzugsanstalt München), in Munich's Giesing district, is one of the largest prisons in Germany. Founded in 1894, it was...
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    Stammheim Prison (German: Justizvollzugsanstalt Stuttgart-Stammheim) is a prison in Stuttgart, Baden Württemberg, Germany. It is situated on the northern...
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  • in prisons. A response was received from 14 out of the 36 prisons in the country. Of the 14, 7 prisons had no computer access to inmates, 5 prisons had...
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    that prisons are classified inconsistently. They identified four general features of supermax prisons: Long-term: once transferred to a supermax prison, incarcerated...
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    expansion of the prison system, there has been a huge expansion of prisons that exist at the federal and state level. Now, prisons are starting to become...
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    closed prisons. They may be designated "training prisons" and are only for prisoners considered a low risk to the public. In Indonesia, open prisons have...
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    men's prisons and that of women's prisons. Male prisons tend to have higher, or more severe, security levels/classifications than female prisons. This...
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    Prison is a penal facility in the borough of Reinickendorf in the north of the German state of Berlin. The prison is one of Germany's largest prisons...
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    Hamelin Prison, also known as the Stockhof, was a prison and penitentiary in Hamelin. The penal institution, which had a predecessor since 1698, existed...
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    Plötzensee Prison (German: Justizvollzugsanstalt Plötzensee, JVA Plötzensee) is a men's prison in the Charlottenburg-Nord locality of Berlin with a capacity...
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    sometimes held over 4,000 during the Nazi era. After the war, East Germany used the prison to incarcerate at least 170,000 people. Prisoners were used for...
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    original on 2012-05-11. "Black Dolphin Prison (Inside: Russia's Toughest Prisons)". natgeotv.com/asia. National Geographic. Archived from the original on...
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    March 31, 2003. There are currently 6 prisons operating in Iceland. There are currently 14 prisons operating in the Republic of Ireland with a total bed...
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    Werl Prison has about 900 inmates, and is one of the largest prisons in Germany. It is located in the town of Werl in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia...
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    Leipzig Prison (Strafvollzugseinrichtung Leipzig, later Justizvollzugsanstalt Leipzig) was a prison in Leipzig, Germany. Built together with an adjacent...
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    Berlin-Hohenschönhausen Memorial (category Defunct prisons in Germany)
    main prison also included a hospital wing, built in the 1950s and expanded in 1972. The hospital treated prisoners from all three Berlin prisons and sometimes...
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    not penalized in itself (in the absence of other factors such as threats of violence, actual violence, or property damage). Many prisons use security features...
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    Prison is a penal facility located in the Soers in Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. As of 2007, 800 criminals are serving their sentences in the...
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    compulsory. The policies are similar to those in Germany. Some prisons do not use them at all, some prisons use them only for some inmates (depending on...
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    Nazi Germany, officially known as the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, is a term used to describe the German state between 1933 and 1945...
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  • prison in Turkey: closed, semi-open, and open. A further distinction is made between ordinary closed prisons and high-security prisons. Many prisons have...
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    A debtors' prison is a prison for people who are unable to pay debt. Until the mid-19th century, debtors' prisons (usually similar in form to locked workhouses)...
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    prisons in Australia Former private prisons Borallon Correctional Centre - Australia's first private prison, currently a government operated prison....
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    of Nazism, the prison served as a Gestapo remand prison and as a stopover between the Plötzensee Prison execution site and other prisons and camps. Pregnant...
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    [ˈaʊtoˌbaːn] ; German plural Autobahnen, pronounced [ˈaʊ̯toˌbaːnən] ) is the federal controlled-access highway system in Germany. The official German term is...
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