Hungarian prisons

- short history, facts and inner side of the walls -

Corvinus University, Budapest, Hungary

29/10/2008
Gergely Fliegauf, Hungarian Police College
 History
at the end of 19th century: prison reform worldwide
star, H or key shaped panopticon prisons: BFB,
Sopron, Szeged
no prison built to 1950s
former regime: prisons under MoI
1960: under MoJ
barrack type prisons (agricultural, soviet type
prisons): Állampuszta, Pálhalma, Tököl
repressive penal policy; lack of budget – basis of the
recent overcrowding and dilapidation
80s: 20 000 prisoners „part of the state
investmenst”
 After regime change
DG of the prison service remained (89-99)
3 prison regime declared by penal code
conditional release (2/3, 4/5, 5/6)
MoJ – HQ of HPS – Prisons and Istitutions
systematic changes:
89: state amnesty for small offences
90: prison riots all over Europe: prgs, education,
conditions
93: new prison code („right of prisoners”, „art of
rewards”, „art of disciplinary punishments”, „semi
open type regime”)
95: introducing IT registration in the HPS: change in
„edocator’s” attitude
96: MoJ regulation on order of prison sentencing and pre-
trial detention
95 and 99: year of big escapes in Hungary, Döcher case
 Recent challenges
from 99: new DG, 2007: 3 DGs
from 99: repressive penal policy:
overcrowding, highest in the region
denying drug problem
19 drug-perevention units (dutch type units
for drug-problem prisoners)
8 medical-correctional units (soviet type units
for mentally ill inmates)
no harm reduction
staff salary: public cleaners
PPP prisons: Szombathely, Tiszalök
Benzodiazepines
Rivotril pills
confiscated
tranquillant and
sleeping pill
heroin users
prison stress
force
misuse: rampage
not only in Hungary
(CEECs)
centralized prisons in the Danube
line
pre-trial „county” prisons
Facts
2 PPP prisons
3 prisons for females (6.25%)
4 prisons for juveniles
institutions: IMEI, Central Prison
Hospital
ca 14 800 inmates
148 per capita (100) EU high
overcrowding: 132% EU high
first offenders 47 %
recividism 53 %
main duration:
1-2 yrs 20 %
5-10 yrs 20 %
foreigners: 3,5 % EU low
drug users (2004)
7,9 %
12, 4 %
60 %
escapes: 5,6,1,7,9 (2003)
violence against staff:
58,48,45,52,30
suicide: 5,5,4 (2005)
staff: 7500, lack: 7%
Part 2
Prison graffities in
Hungary
Pécs juvenile prison
exercize yard inner side of the
perimeter wall
www.muralmoral.org
juvenile uniform
Romani and „whites” together
wife and children

why they feel safe in the

prison?
what is the function of a
prison?
Never give up!

wall of the intake unit in

Marianosztra prison
weekly transport from each
prison to other on mondays
intake:
administration (personal data)
medical intake
placement to units

intake cells: place of IP

violence

stork: system
frog: the inmate himself
Gangs
Hajduhadháza (HH)
Romani majority village in HB
county
2000 cut from town Téglás
integration support was given
back to the government
go on HH-ers!

forced card playing

family threat
molotov cocktails

small tags on corridor walls

symbols
messages
presence
Havanna Block BP
1st picture: sexual deprivation
2nd picture: joint, stars
(against nazism)
3rd picture: unit number, date
of stay, prison snitch, names
Revenge
against a staff member
prison dormitory
watch tower
hanged man, machine gun
man on cross mutilated

compansation
fantasies
agricultural prison
far from employers
a wish to break out
left side with gothic: „rule the
...”
devil and vampire
skull
a devil headed penis breaks
the wall:
masculinity
MS?
tattoo - infection
mothers miss
children
my son I love you from full of
my heart
my treasure I miss you my
Renato

V. Éva my daughter
take care of you
we will meet each other
outside
I miss you much
K. Kriszti your mother
kisses

centralized female prisons

not possible to meet during the
transport
children also in prison
knowledge is
power
A revenge can be only full if it
is prepared,
your enemies can believe that
they survived,
I will hit them when they don’t
count on my anger,
I don’t need mercy but...

comments: fool, you have right

gangstar hiphop
heroes
is there a difference between
societies?
prison snitches shall die out

Szeged Prison
life sentence
real life sentence
30 days isolation
„fegyház” regime
unique in Europe
sexual deprivation
1
I am János Kökény,
I have 17 years left,
but my point is,
that I love my Hairdresser,
Zsuzsa,
I do not care what do they
think about my Zsuzsa.

comments:
f.. me I am a fag
sexual deprivation
2.
1
room number

Szeged Prison
long sentenced prisoners
visits
no conjugal
special units
high security units: 2 prisons
long time regime unit: Szeged
security regime unit: Szeged
Graving
counting days
sun: days left to move
forbidden items

security check in 20-30

minutes
150 prs for one guard during
the night
jokes
1 reception – room service
2 adult movie channel –
private gold

dilapidation
conditions
no privacy
multi-occupancy cells
security risks
homosexual
bullying
info sharing
Simon
he is a real [deleted] fag
he was f..ed in Szolnok
and also in Tököl
Simon s..ks and f...ks very well
This is sure, he far...d in Tököl
He is a snitch moreover
nazis
hepatitis C infected
only convict for hate speech
isolated
swastika tattoo
isolated from the Romani
inmates
drugs
„I wont be transported, I will
stay here and the whole drug
market will be mine! I will rule
the business, the Aryans can
be happy to have the deal with
me. My brother, SMOKI,
arranged the contactman,
froze their canals, I don’t need
your help..."

drug market
who are the Aryans?
fear of infection
over a toilet facility in a female
isolation room

do not seat on it!

it is infected with bacteria

30 female juvenlies
number increasing
IP aggression increasing
offences’s brutality increasing
gang membership openly
only mother-child unit in
Hungary
misteries
this prison is a gathering place
for gay inmates
TEH KING
what is the meaning of the
horse?
bully the staff
rank symbols, truncheon
real art
unused and undiscovered
talent
 thank you for your
contact attention...
fliegauf.gergely@chel
lo.hu