In spring 1943, the Nazis started carrying out executions directly inside the facility itself, where three cells had been adapted for this purpose. The prison capacity was boosted to 2,200, and it became the largest prison in the occupied country. Thousands of Czech people, from members of the resistance to alleged black marketeers, were detained here before being sent to execution sites, especially the Kobylisy Shooting Range, to other prisons within Nazi Germany, or to concentration camps. The Czech prison guards were replaced by Waffen SS members. German Nazi occupation 1939–1945 General Josef Bílý, leader of the Czech anti-Nazi resistance group Obrana Národa, imprisoned at Pankrác Prison before being executed by shooting elsewhereĭuring Nazi German occupation in 1939–1945, the German Gestapo investigation unit and court were established at the prison. In total, the prison was the location for 5 executions between 19, when the democratic First Czechoslovak Republic ceased to exist following the Munich Agreement and German, Hungarian and Polish occupation of the country's border areas. The first execution was on 6 December 1930, when František Lukšík was hanged for committing a murder and robbery. In 1926, the prison was approved for conducting capital punishment (by hanging). The court and the prison are connected by underground corridor. ![]() A large building of Regional court was added to the facility in 1926 and since then it served as the largest of 37 Regional Court prisons for detainees and prisoners serving up to 1-year imprisonment terms. The bedroom section of the prison hospital had 22 rooms for patients from among the prisoners. The prison included bathrooms, classrooms (prisoners were obliged to become involved in education), a lecture hall, gymnasium, 22 workshop rooms, 6 exercise yards, a Roman Catholic church, an Evangelical chapel, and a Jewish house of prayer. It opened in 1889 under name "The Imperial-Royal prison for men in Prague" ( C.k. The prison had gas lighting and its own gasworks. At the time of its opening, the prison was a fairly modern institution with hot air central heating solitary confinement cells had hot water heating. Nevertheless, the expanding Prague encompassed the prison within several decades. At the time of its construction, the site for the new prison was out of city limits, amidst fields above Nusle suburb. The prison was built in 1885–1889 in order to replace the obsolete St Wenceslas Prison ( Svatováclavská trestnice), which used to stand between Charles Square and the Vltava River. Since 2008, women have also been incarcerated here. It is used in part for persons awaiting trial and partly for convicted prisoners. A part of the Czech Prison Service, it is located southeast of Prague city centre in Pankrác, not far from Pražského povstání metro station on Line C. ![]() Pankrác Prison, officially Prague Pankrác Remand Prison ( Czech: Vazební věznice Praha Pankrác) in Czech), is a prison in Prague, Czech Republic. ![]() The Emperor's-King's prison for men in Prague If you are looking for information as to how to send mail, send money, how to deal with inmate property or visiting information, click to the correct facility link: Here is contact information for the Sheriff's office: You can also check out the Alameda County Sheriff's Office Most Wanted page. Before clicking the 'find inmate' button, you must place numbers and/or letters into the box at the bottom of the page. You must have a first and last name to search. ![]() If you are looking for an inmate in the Alameda County Jail, click to the Inmate Locator page.
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