Ženski zapor na Igu, 1956–1967

Abstract

The article discusses the operation of the women’s correctional facility in Ig in the first ten years of its existence, the living conditions, different forms of re-education work for the convicts and the economic units in which the convicts worked. Female convicts came to Ig in July 1956, specifically to the castle building that had previously housed male convicts. Though the building was partly renovated upon the women’s arrival, it was soon apparent that it could not provide optimal conditions for the accommodation of convicts and re-education work. The view on convicts’ re-education and of the importance of manual labour in re-education started to gradually change in the 1960s. For selected convicts, a less restrictive regime of serving sentences had been introduced as early as the late 1950s.

Keywords

• correctional facility ig
• 1956-1967
• women`s prison
• ig castle