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.
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Adolescents who are detained together with adults shall be at no disadvantage
compared to the adolescents detained in the juvenile department.
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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.
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