https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Germany in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Prisons across all German states are seriously overcrowded, according to a media report. In some states, attacks on prison guards have also increased. https://www.thelocal.de/20180425/german-jails-max-capacity Wed, 25 Apr 2018 13:19:07 +0200 german-jails-max-capacity A German former Catholic priest was on Thursday sentenced to eight and a half years in prison for more than 100 cases of child sexual abuse and other offences. https://www.thelocal.de/20180222/bavarian-court-jails-ex-priest-for-108-counts-of-child-sex-abuse Thu, 22 Feb 2018 15:25:58 +0100 bavarian-court-jails-ex-priest-for-108-counts-of-child-sex-abuse A German court on Thursday sentenced a man to two and a half years in jail for running a banned neo-Nazi website, finding him guilty of inciting racial hatred. https://www.thelocal.de/20180208/man-jailed-for-running-neo-nazi-website Thu, 08 Feb 2018 15:38:06 +0100 man-jailed-for-running-neo-nazi-website A German man who stabbed to death a nine-year-old boy, bragged about it online and then killed another man while on the run was sentenced to life in jail on Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.de/20180131/man-who-bragged-online-of-child-murder-sentenced-to-life-in-prison Wed, 31 Jan 2018 18:18:06 +0100 man-who-bragged-online-of-child-murder-sentenced-to-life-in-prison While police in the capital were still on the hunt for five inmates who escaped from Berlin's Plötzensee prison on Thursday, another two broke out only four days later on New Year's Day. https://www.thelocal.de/20180102/third-escape-from-berlin-prison-within-a-week Tue, 02 Jan 2018 11:55:11 +0100 third-escape-from-berlin-prison-within-a-week A former Nazi SS guard known as the Bookkeeper of Auschwitz, 96, lost his final legal challenge against being jailed when Germany's highest court Friday rejected his appeal. https://www.thelocal.de/20171230/bookkeeper-of-auschwitz-96-loses-final-appeal-against-jail Sat, 30 Dec 2017 11:10:53 +0100 bookkeeper-of-auschwitz-96-loses-final-appeal-against-jail A former Nazi SS guard known as the Bookkeeper of Auschwitz, now 96, has filed a challenge against his jail sentence, his lawyer said on Tuesday, arguing that imprisonment would violate his "right to life". https://www.thelocal.de/20171220/bookkeeper-of-auschwitz-96-mounts-battle-against-jail Wed, 20 Dec 2017 10:04:14 +0100 bookkeeper-of-auschwitz-96-mounts-battle-against-jail Former chancellor Gerhard Schröder intervened directly with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to arrange the release of a jailed German human rights activist, Berlin said on Thursday. https://www.thelocal.de/20171026/ex-chancellor-of-germany-brokered-activists-release-in-turkey Thu, 26 Oct 2017 18:17:17 +0200 ex-chancellor-of-germany-brokered-activists-release-in-turkey Sieglinde Baumert began a six-month prison sentence in February after refusing to co-operate with the authorities trying to force her to pay the public broadcaster fee. https://www.thelocal.de/20160404/first-person-ever-jailed-for-public-broadcaster-fee Mon, 04 Apr 2016 15:59:52 +0200 first-person-ever-jailed-for-public-broadcaster-fee A German court Thursday sentenced a paediatrician to more than 13 years in jail followed by indefinite preventive detention for sexually abusing 21 boys as young as four. https://www.thelocal.de/20160310/child-doctor-locked-up-for-abusing-kids-as-young-as-four Thu, 10 Mar 2016 18:21:29 +0100 child-doctor-locked-up-for-abusing-kids-as-young-as-four A politician from Germany’s far right National Democratic Party (NPD) was handed a six-month suspended sentence on Tuesday for displaying his Nazis tattoo in public. https://www.thelocal.de/20151222/politician-given-jail-term-for-displaying-nazi-tattoo Tue, 22 Dec 2015 15:11:53 +0100 politician-given-jail-term-for-displaying-nazi-tattoo Germany is continuing its zero tolerance approach to football supporters lighting flares in Bundesliga grounds after a Schalke supporter was jailed for 18 months on Thursday with no parole. https://www.thelocal.de/20150904/football-fan-given-18-months-for-lighting-flare Fri, 04 Sep 2015 10:34:48 +0200 football-fan-given-18-months-for-lighting-flare A court in Kassel sentenced a man to three years in jail on Monday after his children died in the bath while he was checking train times at the station. https://www.thelocal.de/20150505/man-given-three-years-jail-after-kids-die-in-bath Tue, 05 May 2015 14:15:37 +0200 man-given-three-years-jail-after-kids-die-in-bath Justice chiefs have blamed a series of unlikely accidents after two men escaped from a Berlin prison on Monday morning by scaling the fence with a blanket. https://www.thelocal.de/20140519/two-men-escape-berlin-prison Mon, 19 May 2014 14:10:00 +0200 two-men-escape-berlin-prison Dozens of British and American prisoners are deciding to serve their time in German jails rather than transferring home, justice ministry figures seen by The Local reveal. https://www.thelocal.de/20131122/british-and-american-prisoners-decide-to-stay Fri, 22 Nov 2013 10:10:00 +0100 british-and-american-prisoners-decide-to-stay German authorities have launched an investigation after a prisoner swapped identities with a cell-mate who was due to be released, and simply walked out of jail. https://www.thelocal.de/20130517/49765 Fri, 17 May 2013 10:18:00 +0200 49765 Five prisoners in Lower Saxony deemed too dangerous to release even though they have served their sentences are on a hunger strike for better conditions including internet access, pay TV and conjugal visits. https://www.thelocal.de/20110802/36683 Tue, 02 Aug 2011 13:26:00 +0200 36683 The threat by an Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning to sue two German reporters shows that she is under great pressure, according to an activist who is also under fire from the woman. https://www.thelocal.de/20110102/32165 Sun, 02 Jan 2011 12:49:00 +0100 32165 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. https://www.thelocal.de/20100730/28849 Fri, 30 Jul 2010 17:24:00 +0200 28849 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. https://www.thelocal.de/20091130/23607 Mon, 30 Nov 2009 09:08:00 +0100 23607