WEST GERMAN PRISONS

Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28618, 21 June 1958, Page 10

WEST GERMAN PRISONS

“Life Becoming ] Too Good" (By a Reuter Correspondent) j HAMBURG. Life in West German prisons is ’ too good, according to the West ] German Sunday newspaper, “Bild 1 am Sonntag.” Women at the Klingelpuetz Prison in Cologne had stopped ‘ eating all the food they' were ] given because they were getting < too fat, the newspaper said. “Bild am Sonntag” claimed that , the prisoners were better fed than ’■ refugees, old-age pensioners, and i inmates of homes for the aged, i It said that prisoners received 1 about 3000 calories a day, and < inmates of refugee camps only 1 2800. The newspaper quoted prison officials as saying that prisoners often threw surplus food away, i blocking up the drain pipes in 1 the gaols. * I In Cologne, prisoners had used 1 curdled cheese instead of snowballs in a good-humoured battle ] in the prison court-yard. i “Perhaps,’,’ the newspaper said, i “this is part of the reason’ why ] the crime rate is rising and prisons are overcrowded. Life be- 1 hind bars has lost its terror for : many who are fighting for naked life while they are free. To them i prison mean# not confinement, but s being taken tare of.” 1