Germany

Laws, programmes, and pilots changing how Germany incarcerates — plus relevant research.

• Constitutional rehabilitation mandate1973–ongoing

  rehabilitation · active

  Since the Federal Constitutional Court's 1973 Lebach decision and subsequent rulings, German prison policy is constitutionally bound to a rehabilitation goal grounded in Article 1 (human dignity). Subsequent court decisions have required the state to make rehabilitation efforts a positive duty, not a privilege.

978 facilities in our database — showing the first 24.