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A 40-year-old inmate was stabbed to death at about 15:00 on Monday 14 September 2026 in a corridor of the Forensic Therapeutic Centre (FTZ) Garsten, a secure institution for mentally ill offenders in Upper Austria. The attack was recorded by a surveillance camera. Prison officers who heard screams arrived within moments and attempted resuscitation, but he died of several stab wounds to the chest. A 63-year-old fellow inmate is suspected of the killing and has confessed. The Steyr public prosecutor's office confirmed that the weapon was a butter knife and is investigating on suspicion of murder, naming frustration at not feeling heard by the authorities as a possible motive. It was the second killing of a prisoner in an Austrian justice facility within two weeks. The Ombudsman Board and a commission set up by the Ministry of Justice had already reported systemic failings and severe staff shortages in the forensic detention system; according to the Ombudsman Board, no specialist psychiatric staff are present at FTZ Garsten at night or from Friday to Sunday.
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- city corrected from oberösterreich, the federal state, to garsten, and placeholder coordinates [0, 0] replaced with the Garsten centroid. incident_date corrected from the article date 2026-09-15 to 2026-09-14, the Monday of the attack. victim age_range 40-50 and sex M set. slug updated to match; filename left unchanged per the archive convention.