30 Although it‘s not strictly necessary for occupational safety reasons, the asecos hazardous material work station in the boiler house at the Landsberg am Lech correctional facility is the most secure of its kind. To access the work station “from the outside”, a correctional facility employee has to pull out a heavy keyring half a dozen times to open di erent gates and doors. After all, the historical prison still houses an average of 700 prisoners serving their sentences at any one time. The “panoptic” building – a design allowing prison personnel to view all of the prison wings radiating in a star shape from a central point – was constructed during the first decade of the 20th century and has been renovated frequently. New buildings and refurbishments have been common especially since the 1960s, and it‘s not hard to imagine the murderer of Bavarian Prime Minister Kurt Eisner imprisoned here (1919), or Hitler, Heß and Streicher, who were all also former prisoners. Energy from water vapour The boiler house serves as the prison’s own power plant. Four large steam boilers are installed in the room. Two of them handle the prison’s heating system, and two other boilers heat service water and supply the kitchen: The prison kitchen cooks on an industrial scale on steam-powered ovens. The correctional facility‘s laundry also runs on steam: Its rotary ironing machines, washing machines, and dryers use heat produced by the steam and don’t have to use heating coils. The entire correctional facility is heated and run from this room – including the seven factory halls where prisoners work and receive training. The halls house a book-binding workshop, a tailor’s shop, and a vehicle workshop. Corrosion-free boilers This means the whole correctional facility depends on the boilers to work well. Trained central heating and ventilation equipment fitter Martin B. (we can‘t provide his whole name for security reasons) is one employee Centro penitenciario Landsberg am Lech | Alemania DETRÁS DE BARROTES
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