Here is Jan Carl Janssen and here is his book on prison conditions.
LATER NOTE: A report on this case on Udo Vetter’s blog, with four comments (glad the UK is out of the EU, especially because the right of silence has been weakened). Not yet references to how a prisoner escaped from Wandsworth last week. Udo gives the file number of the German case: 301 OAus 1/23
The German mindset is hard to understand sometimes. I often get the feeling they live on another planet – Planet Germany. They are, well, consensus-based, even when (especially when?) the things they believe simply aren’t true.
Unfortunately, a couple of days later a man charged as a terrorist managed to escape from Wandsworth Prison – perhaps not so tough for him if he wanted to escape.
From Sky News: “Daniel Khalife escaped prison using material which may have been from bed sheets, court hears. The former soldier was arrested on Saturday after an alleged 75 hours on the run. Daniel Khalife has appeared in court accused of using bedsheets to strap himself under a food truck to escape from Wandsworth prison.11 Sept 2023”
German are wonderful yet complex