Kaunas Prison

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Kaunas Prison (Lithuanian: Kauno tardymo izoliatorius) is a prison in the center of Kaunas, second largest city of Lithuania. As of 2007, it houses approximately 300 prisoners and employs around 230 prison guards.^[1] Most prisoners are there under temporary arrest awaiting court decisions or transfers to other detention facilities.^[2]

History

The Kaunas Prison was completed in 1864,

in 1924.

During World War II, in June 1941, during the German invasion of the Soviet Union, the majority of the convicts in Kaunas Prison were Jewish. Most of them were executed at Ninth Fort. Most of the prisoners kept in Kaunas Prison were under interrogation. Due to lack of food or medical care, the exhausting work and the beatings, the prisoner mortality rate was rather high.^[4] Kaunas Prison was completely liquidated in 1960. After the reconstruction, in the place of the former Kaunas Prison the scientific research center of Kaunas Polytechnic Institute was settled.

Due to the lack of spaces for individuals under temporary arrest to await court decisions and transfers to other detention sites, Kaunas Remand Prison was to be reconstructed under the resolution adopted by the

in 1993. After the reconstruction, Kaunas Remand Prison opened and is the most modern prison in Lithuania.

Notable prisoners

• Michał Elwiro Andriolli, Polish painter and architect
• Leonas Bistras, former Prime Minister of Lithuania
• Felix Dzerzhinsky, Soviet statesman and founder of the Cheka
• priest and a leader of the January Uprising
• Vytautas Petrulis, former Prime Minister of Lithuania
• Lithuanian Army
  and director of the State Security Department
• Kazys Skučas, Lithuanian politician and general of the Lithuanian Army
• Antanas Sniečkus, Lithuanian communist leader

References

External links

• Official website

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