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What does Birchermüesli have to do with human dignity?
"The Birchermüesli in prison is so shitty because you want to rob the inmates of their dignity with it," said Walter Stürm - probably the most famous escape king in Switzerland - in the 80s. The question of human dignity in Swiss imprisonment is not off the table today.
With the support of his lawyer, Walter Stürm fought against the living conditions in solitary confinement. In the context of our advisory work for prisoners, the question of human dignity in Swiss imprisonment arises every day and always to the same extent.
On November 25th, “Storm - until we're dead or free” comes to German-speaking cinemas. The film shows how, in the context of the 1980s, lawyers began to raise the question of whether the Swiss imprisonment was in conformity with international human rights treaties. A movement emerged that campaigned for more humane conditions in Swiss prisons and penal institutions.
A lot has changed since then. While imprisonment conditions have improved in certain areas, increasing security concerns in society and the changing composition of the prison population mean that more humane detention is still a long way off. Prisoners are more often and longer in solitary confinement, detention is less and less granted or conditional release is granted and health care is inadequate. Due to a lack of therapy and measures places, many prisoners are housed in the wrong detention regime and inpatient measures are carried out too often and for too long in ordinary penal institutions. Switzerland is repeatedly criticized in this regard by the UN.
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