Correctional Facility Ljubljana, 1946–1954

Abstract

The Correctional Facility Ljubljana was established in 1946 and primarily intended for serving sentences of deprivation of liberty with forced labour. It was housed in the former judicial prison building on Miklošičeva Street. The institution also had several external work sites where the convicts were sent to perform forced labour. The number of convicts grew rapidly in the post-war years. Manual labour was seen as one of the primary means of their re-education, whereby convicts were exploited as cheap labour in post-war economic recovery projects. The paper also focuses on the organization of the Correctional Facility Ljubljana, the living conditions of convicts, and other forms of re-education work. The institution was abolished in 1954, and the convicts were transferred to other penal institutions.