Correctional institutions XX  Birth preparation and post-natal care should be available to inmates to the same extent that it is to women living in freedom. XX  The correctional institutions shall ensure that pregnant inmates receive birth preparation support from a midwife. 2.5.4.4 Rights of small children in the penal system Small children who live with their detained mothers in correctional institutions are not sentenced to live in prison and can leave the institution when accompanied by a suitable person at any time. In Innsbruck correctional institution, neither the mother of the child nor the prison guard in the mother and child department was aware of this. Children are not prisoners The NPM criticised this knowledge deficit. Advanced training has been mandatory for all prison guards working in a mother and child department in accordance with the decree “Minimum standards for women in Austrian correctional institutions” (“Mindeststandards für den Frauenvollzug in österreichsichen Anstalten”) since 2016. Nevertheless, there are still many prison guards who have not attended this training course. The first course only took place in the autumn of 2018. Training needs The Federal Ministry of Constitutional Affairs, Reforms, Deregulation and Justice justified the knowledge deficit with a change of staff in the department and with the fact that children rarely live in the institution together with their detained mothers. The ministry also made reference to the contents of basic training and to the mandatory training courses. XX  Staff deployed to mother and child departments should be informed about the rights of the child. 2.5.5 Adolescents 2.5.5.1 Separate detention of adolescents and adult detainees In addition to the special institution for adolescents in Gerasdorf and Schwarzau correctional institution, the court prisons of Graz-Jakomini, Innsbruck, Klagenfurt, Linz, Salzburg and Vienna-Josefstadt currently have juvenile departments. All of the remaining court prisons have no departments for juvenile detention even though adolescents (particularly while awaiting trial) can be detained in any court prison in general. 128

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