Abstract
Abstract Since 1976, with the passage of the Federal Prison Act, rehabilitation has been a major philosophical principle in German penal law and correctional practice. The purpose of this article is to describe three prominent features that promote rehabilitation in German prisons: unique environmental conditions, extensive work and training programs, and frequent use of community reintegration programs. The findings for this article were derived from three sources of information: informal interviews with German prison officials and university criminologists, a review of extant literature on German corrections, and most important, from visits to four maximum security correctional institutions in western Germany during the period of September 1993 through June 1994.
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