A 19-year-old is fighting in the canton of Bern to be allowed to serve his sentence in semi-captivity. This socially acceptable form of punishment is used less and less.
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No prison, but still with a fence: St. Johannsen measures center near Le Landeron.
Photo: Peter Klaunzer (Keystone)
If you have to go to prison, you not only lose your freedom temporarily, but also your job, the income and the apartment. These danger A convicted 19-year-old recently wanted to avert it before the Bernese Higher Court: As himselfsthe is afraid of being a scrap metal dealer during the freedomssmet his clients losing and becoming dependent on welfare. The man asked for an extraordinary one Form of execution: die Halbgefangenschaft.
In semi-captivity, you wake up in prison in the morning, drive to work or to training and then return after End work immediately in the institution back. The measure was introduced in Switzerland in 1974 and is intended to prevent convicts from being completely left behind because of a prison sentence.
