Zakład Karny w Raciborzu, Racibórz

Racibórz Penitentiary Institution - a closed-type penitentiary for repeat offenders, with a therapeutic ward for convicts with non-psychotic mental disorders or mental retardation. It also has wards for temporarily arrested people and a ward for first-time offenders employed on the outside.

The Racibórz prison is classified as a category one prison, which means that it houses prisoners sentenced both to short-term and to the most severe prison terms.

As a remand prison, it covers the area of operation of Prosecutor's Offices and Courts in Racibórz, Wodzisław Śląski, Żory, Rybnik with a local center in Żory, and a local center of the District Court in Gliwice with its seat in Wodzisław Śląski. The number of people employed in the facility in 2008 was over 253 officers and civil employees. At the beginning of 2009 it decreased to about 230 people.

The average cell area of the plant is 7-8 m². The area it covers is over 94,000 m². The total area of the residential cells is over 2600 m². Among other things, the brick architectural detail has been preserved in the facility.