Justice - Over-60s prisoners: Another prisoner convicted under GDR law
Another man convicted under GDR criminal law is still in prison in Thuringia. The man was arrested in July 1990 and sentenced in April 1992 under the GDR penal code, the Ministry of Justice announced in response to an inquiry. Meanwhile, the number of inmates over the age of 60 has also risen. For data protection reasons, the ministry did not want to provide any information on the age of the oldest inmate in Thuringia's prisons.
At the end of November this year, the Ministry of Justice counted 60 such inmates - including those on remand and in preventive detention. This corresponded to 4.5 percent of the total number of prisoners (1333). Four years previously, there were 35 prisoners over the age of 60 at the end of November. These in turn accounted for 2.2 percent of the 1564 prisoners at the time.
According to the ministry, everyday life in prison is not fundamentally different from that of younger prisoners. Prisoners who have reached the standard age limit for statutory pension insurance are not generally obliged to work in prison. If, following a medical examination, it is determined that older prisoners are fit for work, they can carry out work in the same way as younger prisoners. For those who do not work, there are leisure and sports activities during regular working hours.
Older prisoners also receive support with physical restrictions, for example they are housed close to the medical service in the prisons.
Older prisoners may have to come to terms with the fact that they may die in custody, it was said. However, this is also the case for younger prisoners who are seriously ill.
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The man serving his sentence in Thuringia was convicted under the GDR's Ministry of Justice's penal code, which was enacted in Erfurt. The rise in the number of over-60 prisoners in Thuringia's penal system, as noted by the Ministry, includes individuals from the time when Thuringia was part of the GDR.
Source: www.stern.de
