https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Austria in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed 'Safe sex packages' including an informative leaflet will be distributed to all new inmates in Austria's prisons. https://www.thelocal.at/20160628/austrian-prisoners-to-receive-condoms-and-lubricant Tue, 28 Jun 2016 11:14:11 +0200 austrian-prisoners-to-receive-condoms-and-lubricant Ten of Austria’s 27 prisons are hopelessly overcrowded due to the amount of people smugglers being held in custody awaiting trial. According to a report in the Kurier newspaper, 534 people are currently in Austrian prisons on charges of people smuggling. https://www.thelocal.at/20151006/prisons-overcrowded-with-people-smugglers Tue, 06 Oct 2015 15:34:56 +0200 prisons-overcrowded-with-people-smugglers A former prisoner is suing Austria for €680,000 after he was seriously injured because of a broken bunk bed in St. Pölten prison. https://www.thelocal.at/20150626/former-boxer-sues-for-prison-bunk-bed-injury Fri, 26 Jun 2015 13:10:42 +0200 former-boxer-sues-for-prison-bunk-bed-injury One of Austria’s most high-profile prisoners - Austrian entrepreneur and former football club president Hannes Kartnig - has become a victim of theft in Graz’s Jakomini prison. https://www.thelocal.at/20150508/prison-thief-steals-from-austrian-entrepreneur Fri, 08 May 2015 13:43:03 +0200 prison-thief-steals-from-austrian-entrepreneur Amnesty International criticized Austria on Wednesday for allowing the chronic neglect of detainees in preventive detention, and also highlighted a lack of legal advice and inadequate care for asylum seekers. https://www.thelocal.at/20150225/amnesty-slams-austrias-treatment-of-prisoners Wed, 25 Feb 2015 13:41:10 +0100 amnesty-slams-austrias-treatment-of-prisoners A prison guard from Vienna’s Josefstadt prison is in court on Friday on charges of abusing his power in order to receive sexual favours from inmates. https://www.thelocal.at/20150220/prison-guard-abused-power-to-get-sex Fri, 20 Feb 2015 11:55:00 +0100 prison-guard-abused-power-to-get-sex Cleaning materials and supplies of everyday essentials such as toilet paper have allegedly gone missing from Austria’s third largest prison - to the tune of €12,000. https://www.thelocal.at/20150203/prison-missing-12000-euros-worth-of-loo-paper-and-soap Tue, 03 Feb 2015 11:43:23 +0100 prison-missing-12000-euros-worth-of-loo-paper-and-soap A convicted fraudster must have been over the moon after he was released from prison four months too early after prison officials mixed him up with another prisoner with the same name. https://www.thelocal.at/20150120/fraudster-leaves-prison-in-name-mix-up Tue, 20 Jan 2015 13:24:26 +0100 fraudster-leaves-prison-in-name-mix-up Austria’s President Heinz Fischer has granted 30 prisoners their freedom as part of a traditional Christmas amnesty. They will be allowed to spend the holiday at home and can leave prison on Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.at/20141216/30-prisoners-pardoned-for-christmas Tue, 16 Dec 2014 11:26:00 +0100 30-prisoners-pardoned-for-christmas Prisoners in Sonnberg jail in Lower Austria are offered cosmetic treatments to have their teeth whitened, according to a report in the Heute newspaper. https://www.thelocal.at/20141126/prisoners-get-their-teeth-whitened-in-jail Wed, 26 Nov 2014 12:11:00 +0100 prisoners-get-their-teeth-whitened-in-jail A new online shop on the Austrian Justice Ministry’s website is offering gift items made by prisoners - including handmade metal figurines, board games, and Christmas wreaths and decorations. https://www.thelocal.at/20141114/prison-service-sells-gifts-made-by-convicts Fri, 14 Nov 2014 11:16:00 +0100 prison-service-sells-gifts-made-by-convicts The head of a juvenile prison at Gerasdorf in Lower Austria has been criticised for allowing two convicted murderers to leave the prison for a wedding, and accompanying them herself. https://www.thelocal.at/20140711/prison-boss-drove-murderers-to-wedding Fri, 11 Jul 2014 18:59:01 +0200 prison-boss-drove-murderers-to-wedding A whistleblower has revealed that some long-term prisoners in Krems Stein prison in Lower Austria have been issued with 1000 Cialis-brand erectile-dysfunction drugs, according to a report on Wednesday in the daily newspaper Heute. https://www.thelocal.at/20140703/long-term-prisoners-receive-erection-meds Thu, 03 Jul 2014 14:42:00 +0200 long-term-prisoners-receive-erection-meds For some people, old habits die hard. A prisoner who was on day release from Krems-Stein jail has been convicted of carrying out 38 burglaries on his ‘days off’ in shops in Krems, Lower Austria. https://www.thelocal.at/20140619/day-release-prisoner Thu, 19 Jun 2014 13:31:05 +0200 day-release-prisoner Not everyone is enjoying the current hot weather in Austria - almost 9,000 prisoners have been sweltering in their cells and have now been granted daily showers and plenty of juice. https://www.thelocal.at/20140613/prisoners-granted-daily-showers-in-hot-weather Fri, 13 Jun 2014 13:38:00 +0200 prisoners-granted-daily-showers-in-hot-weather Another prison abuse incident has been disclosed, this time in the Upper Austrian prison that once constituted Suben Abbey. https://www.thelocal.at/20140529/more-prison-abuse-emerges-former-abbey Thu, 29 May 2014 14:50:00 +0200 more-prison-abuse-emerges-former-abbey Justice Minister Wolfgang Brandstetter has suspended three prison officers from Krems-Stein prison after an investigation revealed that an elderly mentally ill prisoner had been practically forgotten in his cell, and left "to rot". https://www.thelocal.at/20140522/krems-prison-officials-suspended Thu, 22 May 2014 11:49:00 +0200 krems-prison-officials-suspended An investigation into Austrian prisons by the Falter paper has exposed a shocking case of neglect in a prison in Lower Austria - and has triggered disciplinary and criminal hearings against officials. https://www.thelocal.at/20140521/serious-neglect-in-austrian-prison Wed, 21 May 2014 11:49:00 +0200 serious-neglect-in-austrian-prison