Foreign nationals now make up nearly half of Germany’s prison population

Foreign nationals now make up nearly half of Germany’s prison population

Foreign nationals now account for almost 45 percent of Germany’s prison population, with the proportion approaching 60 percent in Berlin and Hamburg, according to figures obtained from all 16 state justice ministries. An analysis by the Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung found that 27,000 of the 60,408 people held in German prisons or pretrial detention as of […]