Country

Germany

Detention issue

Protection against violence

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Legal instruments & key provisions

Legal instrument Key provision
Model State Prison ActHarmful consequences of detention are to be counteracted, which is also meant to protect prisoners from health risk, and it provides for a 'nonviolent climate' in prisons through 'security and order'. The Länder have additional legal instruments explicitly mentioning that prisoners are to be protected against violence in their prison acts, and other Länder prison acts have copied the provision on a “nonviolent climate” from the model act. A key instrument to enforce order and protect prisoners from violent prisoners are the so-called special security measures (besondere Sicherungsmaßnamen), among others, solitary confinement. Another instrument to deescalate violent conflicts and maintain the prison order is the relocation of prisoners which is provided for in all Länder prison acts.

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