Potulice Correctional Facility (Potulice)

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Also known as Lebrechtsdorf concentration camp. Initially created as a transit camp for Poles expelled from German-occupied Poland, it also became a camp for children kidnapped by the Nazis being considered for Germanification. 1,296 people died there, 767 of whom were children. After the war became Central Labour Camp Potulice from 1945 until 1950, run by the communist government of Poland to hold Germans, anti-communist Poles (including members of the Armia Krajowa - Home Army) and prisoners of war from Czech Republic, Hungary and Rumania. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Labour_Camp_Potulice . In 1950 the camp was converted into a prison for political prisoners and, later, criminals.

Today, the Penal Unit in Potulice is a state prison with space for 1,446 inmates (underaged, and first-time offenders, as well as criminally insane) featuring a medical clinic