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 A man on a work placement at a prison in the state of Brandenburg was immediately dismissed from his internship after sending friends a photo of the prison's master key via the messenger service WhatsApp. https://www.thelocal.de/20210305/intern-at-german-prison-faces-hefty-bill-after-sending-photo-of-master-key-to-friends Fri, 05 Mar 2021 11:29:43 +0100 intern-at-german-prison-faces-hefty-bill-after-sending-photo-of-master-key-to-friends 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 Frankfurt court sentenced a Somali-born German national to two years and ten months in jail on Friday, for joining the Al-Qaeda-linked Shabaab group and fighting alongside the Islamists in his native country. https://www.thelocal.de/20171027/man-jailed-in-frankfurt-for-fighting-with-somali-islamists Fri, 27 Oct 2017 16:38:42 +0200 man-jailed-in-frankfurt-for-fighting-with-somali-islamists A groper has been given a prison sentence in Germany, probably for the first time since the tightening of the sexual harassment law. https://www.thelocal.de/20170512/man-sentenced-to-prison-for-groping-woman-under-new-german-law Fri, 12 May 2017 17:40:40 +0200 man-sentenced-to-prison-for-groping-woman-under-new-german-law A convicted rapist has escaped from his guards while on a visit to a brewery in Cologne and is on the run, police said on Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.de/20160121/convicted-rapist-escapes-during-brewery-visit Thu, 21 Jan 2016 17:11:04 +0100 convicted-rapist-escapes-during-brewery-visit Convicts forced to work in one German prison have started to refuse food - the only means they have of protesting against miserable wages and missing welfare payments. https://www.thelocal.de/20151203/prisoners-in-forced-labour-go-on-hunger-strike Thu, 03 Dec 2015 14:14:49 +0100 prisoners-in-forced-labour-go-on-hunger-strike Former Bayern Munich president Uli Hoeneß has lost weight and is living a spartan existence while serving his prison sentence for tax evasion, according to ex-Germany international Gunter Netzer. https://www.thelocal.de/20141102/ex-bayern-president-hoeness-slims-down-in-jail Sun, 02 Nov 2014 09:19:00 +0100 ex-bayern-president-hoeness-slims-down-in-jail The disgraced former president of Bayern Munich FC, Uli Hoeneß has paid €30 million of his outstanding taxes, the Süddeutsche Zeitung reported on Monday, and has taken a day off prison. https://www.thelocal.de/20140922/hoene-pays-up-takes-day-out Mon, 22 Sep 2014 12:34:00 +0200 hoene-pays-up-takes-day-out The incredible tale of a father who arranged a kidnapping in order to bring his daughter's killer to justice in France avoided prison time on Tuesday for the abduction. The father took matters into his own hands after Germany refused to extradite the suspect. https://www.thelocal.de/20140618/no-prison-for-man-who-kidnapped-daughters-killer Wed, 18 Jun 2014 12:57:00 +0200 no-prison-for-man-who-kidnapped-daughters-killer A fugitive sex offender, who allegedly abused a teenage girl when he was let out of prison for the day, was captured on Tuesday morning after 11 days on the run. https://www.thelocal.de/20140610/fugitive-sex-offender-reinhard-ruehs-captured-near-osnabrueck Tue, 10 Jun 2014 10:43:00 +0200 fugitive-sex-offender-reinhard-ruehs-captured-near-osnabrueck A sex offender and violent criminal who was let out on day release disappeared last Friday and allegedly sexually abused a 13-year old girl. Police have asked the public for help finding the fugitive in central Germany. https://www.thelocal.de/20140605/police-call-for-help-in-finding-fugitive-sex-offender Thu, 05 Jun 2014 13:20:00 +0200 police-call-for-help-in-finding-fugitive-sex-offender UPDATE: Bayern Munich’s former president Uli Hoeneß started his prison sentence on Monday for tax evasion, 81 days after being sentenced. https://www.thelocal.de/20140602/uli-hoeness-to-start-prison-sentence-today Mon, 02 Jun 2014 14:31:00 +0200 uli-hoeness-to-start-prison-sentence-today Firefighters had to rescue a man on Thursday evening who locked himself in a women’s prison in Munich. https://www.thelocal.de/20140523/firefighters-rescue-man-from-womens-jail-in-munich Fri, 23 May 2014 12:07:00 +0200 firefighters-rescue-man-from-womens-jail-in-munich Three days after two inmates broke out of a Berlin jail, police have released photos and details of the prisoners. They fled from their cells with the help of a bed sheet in a cartoon-like escape. https://www.thelocal.de/20140522/police-appeal-over-berlin-prison-break-moabit Thu, 22 May 2014 17:25:00 +0200 police-appeal-over-berlin-prison-break-moabit Guards at a Berlin prison took almost three hours to notice two inmates had escaped on Monday morning. https://www.thelocal.de/20140520/guards-dont-notice-escaped-inmates-for-three-hours Tue, 20 May 2014 11:21:00 +0200 guards-dont-notice-escaped-inmates-for-three-hours 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 A postwoman has been sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison after she was found guilty of throwing away over 800 letters instead of delivering them. https://www.thelocal.de/20140507/germanys-worst-postwoman-delivered-to-jail-forthrowing-800-letters-in-river Wed, 07 May 2014 19:35:00 +0200 germanys-worst-postwoman-delivered-to-jail-forthrowing-800-letters-in-river The jail which will hold Germany’s most famous prisoner took the unusual step of opening its doors to 150 journalists on Monday. https://www.thelocal.de/20140331/uli-hoeness-prison-jva-landsberg-opens-doors-to-media Mon, 31 Mar 2014 16:37:00 +0200 uli-hoeness-prison-jva-landsberg-opens-doors-to-media A German state spent €4.3 million on a prison which only had one inmate and then closed, according to a report on Thursday. The single inmate was accompanied by 26 members of staff for a year. https://www.thelocal.de/20131212/one-man-prison-cost-43-million Thu, 12 Dec 2013 17:52:00 +0100 one-man-prison-cost-43-million Former SS assassin Heinrich Boere has died in a German prison hospital aged 92, two years after starting a life term for killing three civilians in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands. https://www.thelocal.de/20131203/ss-shooter-dies Tue, 03 Dec 2013 10:24:42 +0100 ss-shooter-dies