There are currently 14 deportation prisons in use around Germany and 1 more is in construction. Find below details about each of these prisons. These are the places were people are locked up in the days or months before a deportation. We stand in solidarity with people resisting inside deportation prisons and promote any action & campaign that helps to end the practice of deportation prisons. For a world without prisons!
last updated on 14.08.2024
AUSREISEGEWAHRSAM SCHÖNEFELD
Prison capacity: 35👥 PLANNED EXPANSION TO 108
Managed by: Zentrale Ausländerbehörde des Landes Brandenburg
Private security: City Schutz GmbH
Based near the fence of BER airport, Terminal 5 in Schönefeld. Terminal 5 is closed for passenger flights and exclusively used for deportations. Promised to be used for 48 hours max detention, Berlin & Brandenburg usually make deportation raids in the night/morning before a deportation flight and take people directly to the Rückführungsgebäude at BER Terminal 5, Building M for charterflight deportations or to the police station at BER Terminal 1-2 (Hugo-Eckener-Allee 7) for deportations on commercial passenger flights. Gewahrsam Schönefeld is used to detain people for pre-deportation purposes /Ausreisegewahrsam), and in addition, people are also detained here for Flughafenasyl and Transithaft, as well as for embassy-hearings. From 2025, construction will start on the terrain directly north of the current Ausreisegewahrsam to build the new Deportation Center BER that will include a new prison with capacity to hold 108 people.
AHEG BERLIN
Prison capacity: 10👥
Managed by: Polizei Berlin
Full name: Abschiebungshafteinrichtung für Gefährder Berlin
This deportation prison is used to imprison people who Germany perceives as a threat or have been deemed to commit a crime. It is also used as deportation prison for people not fitting in this category, but allegedly max for 24 hours.
AHE PFORZHEIM
Prison capacity: 51👥 PLANNED EXPANSION TO 80
Managed by: Regierungspräsidium Karlsruhe (Baden Württemberg)
Full name: Abschiebungshafteinrichtung Pforzheim
Private security: SIBA security service GmbH
JVA EICHSTÄTT
Prison capacity: 96👥
Managed by: Bayerische Staatsministerium der Justiz
Full name: Justizvollzugsanstalt Eichstätt – Einrichtung für Abschiebungshaft
KTA MÜNCHEN FLUGHAFEN
Prison capacity: 51👥
Managed by: Bayerisches Landesamt für Asyl und Rückführungen
Private security: Kötter GmbH & Co. KG
Full name: Kombinierte Transit- und Abschiebungshafteinrichtung am Flughafen München
ABSCHIEBUNGSGEWAHRSAM BREMEN
Prison capacity: 16👥
Managed by: Polizei Bremen
RÜCKFÜHRUNGSEINRICHTUNG HAMBURG
Prison capacity: 30👥
Managed by: Behörde für Inneres und Sport, Amt für Migration
Private security: WEKO Sicherheitsdienste GmbH
AHE DARMSTADT
Prison capacity: 80👥
Managed by: Polizeipräsidium Südhessen
Full name: Hessische Abschiebehafteinrichtung Darmstadt-Eberstadt
JVA LANGENHAGEN
Prison capacity: 68👥
Managed by: Justizressort in der Abteilung Langenhagen der Justizvollzugsanstalt Hannover
Full name: Justizvollzugsanstalt Langenhagen
UFA BÜREN
Prison capacity: 175👥
Managed by: Bezirksregierung Detmold (Dezernat 29)
Private security: KWS GmbH & Co. KG
Full name: Unterbringungseinrichtung für Ausreisepflichtige Büren
GFA INGELHEIM
Prison capacity: 40👥
Managed by: Land Rheinland-Pfalz
Private security: WWD Dienstleistung GmbH
Full name: Gewahrsamseinrichtung für Ausreisepflichtige Ingelheim
ABSCHIEBUNGSHAFT DRESDEN
Prison capacity: 58👥
Managed by: Freistaat Sachsen
Contracted to: European Homecare GmbH
Private security: Kötter GmbH & Co. KG
Full name: Einrichtung zum Vollzug der Abschiebungshaft und des Ausreisegewahrsams Dresden
AHE GLÜCKSTADT
Prison capacity: 42👥
Managed by: Landesamt für Zuwanderung und Flüchtlinge Schleswig-Holstein
Private security: KWS GmbH & Co. KG
Full name: Abschiebungshafteinrichtung für Schleswig-Holstein, Hamburg und Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
Opened in August 2021, currently 42 places. Soon expanded to the planned 60.
AHE HOF
Prison capacity: 150👥
Managed by: Bayerisches Staatsministerium der Justiz
Full name: Abschiebungshafteinrichtung der Justizvollzugsanstalt Hof
AHE PASSAU
Prison capacity: 200👥
Managed by: Bayerisches Staatsministerium der Justiz
Full name: Abschiebungshafteinrichtung der Justizvollzugsanstalt Passau
PLANNED TO BE OPENED 2025
