Correctional institutions restrictions. Measures involving non-smoker protection for those under the age of 18 shall be observed when adolescents are housed with adults in regular detention. X Adolescents who are detained together with adults shall be at no disadvantage compared to the adolescents detained in the juvenile department. X Adolescents shall be detained in such a way that they are not exposed to harmful influence or other disadvantage. They shall be detained separately from adult detainees. 2.5.7.2 Lack of additional qualifications for the juvenile department Vienna-Josefstadt correctional institution Recurring criticism The commission has repeatedly highlighted the tense personnel situation in the juvenile department of Vienna-Josefstadt correctional institution, which was compensated for by deploying officers from other departments. In June 2019, the commission once again found that prison officers without additional qualifications were working in the juvenile department team. The particular vulnerability and special needs of the adolescents in detention require that only officers work in juvenile departments who are familiar with and have been specially trained in dealing with adolescents. These officers should have pedagogical skills (see CPT/Inf/E [2002] 1 – Rev. 2010, p. 86). Obligatory additional qualifications The NPM demands that both the day and night shifts are manned with officers from the juvenile department. As stipulated in the minimum standards for the detention of juvenile offenders and juvenile departments (Federal Ministry of Justice VD41704/0011-VD 2/2012), these officers shall have obligatory training in this specialised detention area. The training programme on the detention of juvenile offenders (“Arbeitsfeld Jugendvollzug”) shall be completed. As the NPM was assured, it is important to the Federal Ministry of Justice that those prison officers who are deployed in the detention of adolescents receive special training. It is, however, not always possible that this training programme is completed on time due to the low number of adolescents and the unplannable admission to a total of 16 regional court prisons on the one hand and the hiring of new officers on the other. In any case, all of the prison officers working in detention of adolescents are integrated in multidisciplinary teams in which there is awareness for the perception of violence and oppressive structures. 123

Select target paragraph3

Connect to a paragraph
Connect to an entity
Disable highlights
Add to table of contents