Moves by the government to maintain the controversial practice of preventative detention for dangerous criminals are being blocked by members of its own coalition, the Free Democrats, setting the stage for another internal government brawl.
A convicted sex offender asked not to be released from prison without further rehabilitation, it was revealed Saturday. The man was set free in mid-July after nearly 30 years in jail.
Prisoners have a right to protection against offensive symbols such as neo-Nazi graffiti and gross breaches of hygiene such as excrement smeared on their cell walls, Germany's constitutional court ruled Friday.
Two Moroccan men set for deportation were in comas Thursday after a fire broke out at the Mannheim prison where they were being held, police have announced.
Officials in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia on Monday called for a thorough investigation after an inmate at a Remscheid prison killed his girlfriend and severely injured himself in a visiting room over the weekend.
Police said on Monday they narrowly missed nabbing escaped convict Peter Paul Michalski in Mülheim an der Ruhr early, but called on the dangerous criminal to give himself up before someone is harmed.
A former prisoner of East Germany's fearsome secret police will return to one of its jail cells in a reenactment of the communist regime's oppression 20 years after the Berlin Wall fell.
Germany’s prisoners will vote via mail-in ballot for the parliamentary election in September, after authorities refused appeals to be allowed to go to polling stations for security reasons.
Hundreds of Berliners who end up in prison each year for riding public transportation without tickets are stressing the city’s already overcrowded prisons, daily <i>Der Tagesspiegel</i> reported on Monday.
Even hardened criminals have a right to aftershave and hand cream, Germany's highest court said in Berlin on Tuesday, approving the appeal of a male inmate against gender discrimination.
A knife-wielding prisoner at a minimum security prison in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia took a woman hostage on Monday morning to avoid being moved to a more restrictive jail.
