Jimi Blue Ochsenknecht: This is the jail that he is delivered to

Jimi Blue Ochsenknecht is currently doing a jail tour through Germany. The celebrity son, which was arrested with an international arrest warrant at Hamburg Airport over two weeks ago, is currently delivered to Austria by Hamburg Justice. For this purpose, the 33-year-old sits on a bus with other criminals, some of which are apparently already convicted, and places numerous stations. The goal of the Knacki tour is to be the judiciary (yes) Innsbruck (read here why the transport takes so long).

A prison that – at least until a few years ago – had a notorious reputation. A report by the Austrian daily newspaper “The Standard” drew a terrifying picture in 2021. At that time, 82 percent of the occupants reported violent experiences. The average in Austrian prisons was 72 percent at the time. The information goes back to a legal and criminal sociology carried out by Veronika Hofinger and Andrea Fritsche from the Institute for Applied legal and crime. At the time, a third of the Innsbruckers inmates accused the institutional management that far too slowly reacted when the alarm is pressed in the cell. Many of the prisoners interviewed at the time said that they felt stress and tension during their detention in the JA Innsbruck.

“The range of experiences that talked to us ranges from lighter forms of mental violence, such as shouting aggressive shouting, steps and strokes to rape,” said Hofinger Study Head about the condition in Austrian prisons. Another result of the study: At that time, especially among younger prisoners, the probability was higher to become victims of mental or physical violence.

At the time, the JA Innsbruck is also said to have been violated in the law for individual prisoners that has been in effect in Austria since 1975 in Austria. According to the report of the “Standard”, there was no shortage in many places – and especially in Innsbruck. “In reality, they are accommodated for three or four of them,” the trade unionist Martin Schöpf.

In 2023, a former prisoner from the Innsbruck prisoner also made serious allegations against a lawyer officer in the “Kronen Zeitung”, who, according to his statement, mentally abused the prisoners. The officer, for example, shot the warm water into the showers, switched off the electricity in the cells and removed television devices to “generate stress”, the man, who had spent three years at the detention because of an economic offense.

When asked by the star At the Austrian Ministry of Justice, departmental media spokeswoman Sina Bründler-Lerner states that the reports are older and have led to improvement in prison conditions. Furthermore, she asserts: “The training and further education of the justification in Austria is continuously developed in order to meet the growing requirements in the prison system.”

Jimi Blue Ochsenknecht will soon be felt on his own whether the conditions of the JA Innsbruck have actually improved in recent years. After all, he will not be the only prominent inmate: former Austrian finance minister Karl-Heinz Grasser is also sitting in Innsbruck. According to a report, he feels “poodle”.