Hague Penitentiary Institution

Logo of the Penitentiary Institution Haaglanden
The Penitentiary Institution Haaglanden's Scheveningen location.

The Hague Penitentiary Institution (in Dutch Penitentiaire Inrichting Haaglanden) is a prison that is part of the Judicial Institutions Department (in Dutch Dienst Justitiële Inrichtingen (DJI)) of the Ministry of Justice in the Netherlands. It can accommodate more than 1,000 detainees and consists of two locations at Zoetermeer and at Scheveningen. The Zoetermeer location is for Systematic offenders and the Scheveningen location serves as a Penitentiary Psychiatric Center, the 'open design' Limited Secured Installation and Judicial Medical Center. A special independent unit in the Scheveningen location serves as a United Nations Detention Unit (UNDU) for international offenders where they remain in pre-trial detention under the responsibility of the United Nations like suspects of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and of the International Criminal Court (ICC).

Zoetermeer location

The Zoetermeer location of the Hague Penitentiary Institution was built in 1995 and is located in the Rokkenhage district in Zoetermeer, a city in the western Netherlands, in the province of South Holland. The penal institution in Zoetermeer is a detention center and an Institution for Systematic offenders (ISD). The device has capacity for nearly 400 detainees.

Scheveningen location

The Scheveningen location of the Hague Penitentiary Institution more popularly known as Scheveningen Prison is a famous prison in Belgisch Park (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈbɛlɣis pɑrk], literally Belgian Park), a neighbourhood in the Scheveningen district of The Hague, Netherlands. The penitentiary in the east section of Scheveningen is located at the road Pompstationsweg.

The complex Scheveningen includes a Penitentiary Psychiatric Center, Limited Secured Installation (also called 'open design') and the Justice Center for Somatic Care (formerly the Penitentiary Hospital or Judicial Medical Center).

United Nations Detention Unit

Main entrance to the Hague Penitentiary Institution at the Scheveningen location
Security area at the entrance at the Scheveningen location
A typical 10 m2[1] single cell at the ICTY detention facilities

A special independently acting unit in the penitentiary's Scheveningen location hosts the United Nations Detention Unit (UNDU), a UN-administered jail as part of the facility. The UNDU was established in 1993 as part of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the ICC Detention Centre for the detention of people awaiting trial before the International Criminal Court. The penitentiary was picked as a trial location for the International Criminal Court, through the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1688 of 17 June 2006.[2]

References

  1. ↑ "Profile: Scheveningen prison". BBC News. 16 May 2012.
  2. ↑ United Nations Security Council resolution 1688 Archived September 9, 2008, at the Wayback Machine.

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