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The number of detention places in Darmstadt has been increased from 20 to 80. Interior Minister Peter Beuth (CDU) defends the facility, while the left describes it as “inhumane”.
Almost three years after it went into operation, the only deportation prison in Hesse has been expanded. The number of prison places in the Darmstadt district of Eberstadt has been quadrupled from 20 to 80 thanks to a new three-story building. This weekend, the nine people who are currently housed in the previous detention building are to move into the new rooms.
The Hessian Interior Minister Peter Beuth (CDU) announced in a press release on Friday that there was now a “significantly higher standard of accommodation” in the “detention center”. The actual need for prison places exceeds the available capacity.
Jörg Kasper has been running the deportation prison since 2018.
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Jörg Kasper, who has headed the deportation prison since 2018, said on a tour on Friday that, due to corona, only a maximum of 60 of the 80 prison places should be occupied in the future. One station will be kept free for any quarantine cases. So far, however, there have been no infections among the prisoners in the facility. All newcomers would also be tested for the pathogen prior to admission. Last year the deportation prison was empty from spring to late summer because there were no deportation flights.
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ForeignersThose who are staying illegally in Germany can be detained under deportation under strict guidelines. This is regulated in Section 62 of the Residence Act. It distinguishes two forms.
In preparatory custody foreigners come, whose deportation is being prepared. Expulsion is possible if a foreigner has committed serious crimes, such as murder or sexual abuse. According to the law, preparatory detention should not last longer than six weeks.
The preventive detention is only allowed as a last resort if a deportation cannot be enforced otherwise. Anyone who evades deportation on the announced date is placed in preventive detention. It usually does not last longer than six months. However, if the foreigner prevents deportation, preventive detention can be extended to 18 months.
Only in exceptional cases Minors, pregnant women, people with disabilities and families with children are also detained. dpa
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The sterile and puristic furnishings of the single rooms and common rooms in the new building are more reminiscent of a hospital. Each prisoner has his own toilet in his single room, a bed, a desk with a chair, a small refrigerator, a television on the wall and, like in a hospital, a signal alarm button. Smoking is permitted in the rooms, but open fires are not. As a special service for smokers, electric cigarette lighters have been built into the walls at the entrances to the rooms, which can be operated manually and function without a flame.
On the three floors there are also shared showers, a fitness room with sports equipment, table football and table tennis, as well as a common room with a kitchenette. A football field, benches and sports equipment are available in the courtyard, which is surrounded by a high fence secured with barbed wire. The massive bars in front of the windows also remind inmates every day that they are in a prison and should be deported to their countries of origin.
The facility also has cells that are monitored by cameras, in which deportation detainees can be locked up in exceptional cases – for example, if they are at risk of free death. Beds with restraint straps and plastic shields are also available.
Fire-free smoking service.
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“Locking up people who are not guilty of anything in order to force them to move to a country where they do not want to be and cannot be is inhumane,” criticizes Saadet Sönmez, the migration and integration policy spokeswoman for the left-wing parliamentary group Parliament.
Deportations were suspended and the institution closed at the first corona lockdown. Now the state government is again forcing deportations, “as if nothing happened. That is absolutely irresponsible. “
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