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. XX  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. XX  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 132