The article discusses the material about the after- war political prison for women on the Rajhenburg Castle, which has not been researched until now. It also deals with the male offender’s correctional facility, which succeeded the female prison in many respects. The central focus is on the lives of the female prisoners and on the conditions they had to endure during their penalty. The article begins by describing the process of the transportation of these prisoners from the previous prison in Begunje and it follows with the procedure, which had to be carried out at the admission of the prisoners. The adaptation of the castle, which was done before the alteration of its purposes and was necessary for the needs of the establishment, is also mentioned. It also deals with the structures of the offences, which the women were imprisoned for and emphasizes the importance of education dictated by the current political system. The importance of physical work, which was supported by the government, is also pointed out as the best means for altering the minds of the political prisoners. It continues with the description of the health system and the instructions under which the wardens had to act in case of a prisoner with a child or a pregnant woman. The part of the article about the political prison for women concludes with the reasons for termination, instructions at the completion of the penalty and the transportation of the convicts to another prison. In the second, shorter part of this article, the male offender’s correctional facility of an open type is described. The central focus is the description of an open-type of a prison, which was genuinely different from the classical one. It portrays the rights and duties of prisoners, as well as the privileges of an open-type prison. At the end, it does not define the reasons for closure of the prison because they were not depicted in the archives. The article is founded on the research of the material kept by the Archive of the Republic of Slovenia and on the professional scientific literature. It has to be noted that the indicated material is very limited, because several important data for the research have not been registered or preserved. This theme is not well treated in the foreign literature, which is why Slovene historians have made an important step in researching this period of history and have thus lightened the young researchers’ quest for the appropriate literature. The lack of the graphical material should also be mentioned, which is common to all totalitarian and authoritarian political regimes. The prohibition of documenting, its sanctions and the caution of the people is what led to the shortage of the graphic material.