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The Bijlmerbajes is a prison complex in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, near the Amsterdam Amstel railway station. The official name is ''Penitentiaire Inrichting Over-Amstel'', although it is also known as ''Penitentiaire Inrichting De Stadspoort'' or ''Penitentiaire Inrichtingen Amsterdam''. Bijlmerbajes is part of the Custodial Institutions Agency (Dienst Justitiële Inrichtingen, DJI) of the Dutch Ministry of Justice within the Dutch criminal justice system. The building was designed as a humane prison without bars over the windows and was opened in 1978. However it turned out that the glass of the windows was not completely unbreakable, so bars were retrospectively fitted, known as ''lamellen''. The complex consists of 6 towers with small divisions. The towers are connected by a tunnel through the prison, known as the 'Kalverstraat'. The main entrance to the prison is from the Spaklerweg metro station. The alliterative name ''Bijlmerbajes'' was presumably acquired because the tower complex was constructed at the same time as highrise construction in the neighbouring Bijlmermeer, with ''bajes'' a Dutch slang term for "prison". ==Towers== The six towers are each a separate prison each with a different type of prisoners and/or function. The towers are connected via the 260 m. long central corridor ''Kalverstraat''. Besides the six towers there are also six outside areas (one for each tower), three gymnasiums or sport-centres, a small religious building functioning as church and mosque. A central ''front building'' houses some central functions such as the kitchen, visitor reception rooms, the entry processing department and the offices. Each tower has 14 floors. Each department or pavilion has two floors connected via open stairs. Vertical transport between the pavilions and the four shared floors is possible via lifts. Two large lifts are used by the prisoners and a special small lift is only available for staff. In normal circumstances staff and inmates never share a lift. Emergency stairs are provided on two locations: one set next to the lifts and another shaft is built on the other end of each tower. Many activities take place on the remaining four floors, away from the pavilions. Examples are: working in the workshops on the ground-floor, library, training or education, yard-time, doctors office etc. The total floorspace of the complex is 84.860 m2〔(Details PI Overamstel ) on site of Rijksgebouwendienst. Visited 15 February 2009〕 The six towers are: Note: HvB stands for ''Huis van bewaring'' which is the term for a prison for people awaiting sentencing or people convicted to a jailtime up to 6 months. Criminals convicted to a longer sentence then 6 months are moved to a ''gevangenis'', but often this last term is used for an HVB as well. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bijlmerbajes」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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