The paper is devoted to the legacy of Jan Amos Comenius in current pedagogical practice at the Prison Service Academy of the Czech Republic in Stráž pod Ralskem. The Prison Service Academy of the Czech Republic is a departmental educational institution where all new members of the security corps of the Prison Service of the Czech Republic are trained and educated. The teaching and training system is based on the ideas of Comenius, where didactic principles are further developed and find their practical application. In the article, the reader is also introduced to the material and technical possibilities where teaching takes place, both in the main building and in the newly opened training and education center.