Correctional institutions
The adolescents can only perform low-threshold contract work in a company
providing occupational opportunities for juvenile department until further
notice. Due to the weak order situation, sometimes only very few (usually
only two) adolescents can work in the workshop. Furthermore, the workshop
is often closed on Fridays due to staff shortages.
Temporarily no
education programmes
On the positive side, the workshop in the juvenile department is mixed gender
and female adolescents can find work there too.
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Adolescents should be educated in a profession that corresponds to their knowledge,
skills and preferences. Apprenticeship programmes should meet the needs and the
interests of the adolescents. Girls shall not be discriminated against in this respect.
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The expansion of Gerasdorf correction institution into a youth competence centre
should be continued.
2.5.6 Personnel
2.5.6.1 Shortages in prison guard staff
The personnel situation remains tight in the area of law enforcement officers.
Human resources shall be adapted to meet the needs of everyday life in
detention.
The Federal Ministry of Constitutional Affairs, Reforms, Deregulation and
Justice usually points out that the proportion of permanent positions filled
in the law enforcement area is high in any case. For example, all of the
law enforcement permanent positions allocated to St. Pölten correctional
institution were filled on 1 April 2019; just 1.5 positions required to make up
a complete team were unfilled in Wiener Neustadt correctional institution in
spring 2019.
St. Pölten correctional
institution
However, the allocated law enforcement permanent positions are not sufficient,
as there are not enough officers in the different departments. These positions
are necessary to ensure that the detainees can spend at least part of the day
pursuing meaningful activity outside their cells in line with modern detention
concepts. Increased staffing is also the condition for expanding the range of
shared accommodation, occupational opportunities, activities and sports.
The available capacity in the law enforcement area in the correctional
institutions was de facto reduced with the possibility of crediting more hours
for night shifts (from one to currently 1.5 hours) at the same staffing level.
An increase in planned permanent positions in the law enforcement area
would have already been necessary at that point in time in order to offset
absenteeism (see NPM Report 2018, p. 120 et seq.).
Needs foreseeable
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