{"id":359017,"date":"2018-04-30T03:30:41","date_gmt":"2018-04-30T02:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-german-is-becoming-a-foreign-language-in-germanys-prisons\/"},"modified":"2018-04-30T03:30:41","modified_gmt":"2018-04-30T02:30:41","slug":"prison-planet-com-german-is-becoming-a-foreign-language-in-germanys-prisons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-german-is-becoming-a-foreign-language-in-germanys-prisons\/","title":{"rendered":"Prison Planet.com \u00bb German is becoming a \u2018foreign language\u2019 in Germany\u2019s prisons"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/voiceofeurope.com\/2018\/04\/german-becomes-a-foreign-language-in-germanys-prisons\/\"><strong>Voice Of Europe<\/strong><\/a><br \/>April 27, 2018<\/p>\n<p><strong>The number of foreigners in German prisons is increasing and as a result, the use of German language is becoming problematic, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.morgenpost.de\/politik\/article214113157\/Deutsch-wird-in-vielen-Gefaengnissen-zur-Fremdsprache.html\"><em>Berliner Morgenpost<\/em><\/a> reports.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In Hamburg, 58 percent of inmates are of foreign origin, and in Berlin, their proportion is at 47 percent. Horst Hund, chairman of the prison committee, thinks the migrant crisis is partly responsible:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt least for Rhineland-Palatinate, the trend has intensified frm the year 2015. The assumption is obvious that the wave of immigration has to do with it\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Between states, the numbers differ: In Bavaria, it is 42.3 percent (was 30.5) and in Thuringia, it is currently at 12 percent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe need for language courses and interpreting services is rising, and also the competence in dealing with other cultures is required,\u201d says Thuringia\u2019s chairman of the Conference of Ministers of Justice, Dieter Lauinger.<\/p>\n<p>Germany\u2019s prisoner union GG \/ BO complains that often foreign prisoners cannot understand instructions. Conversations with ward managers lead to conflicts because they simply would not be given rules in their mother tongue.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Bavarian judiciary, valuable help is provided by supervisors, who themselves have a migrant background, not only as interpreters, but also because they are able to better assess cultural particularities from their own experience.<\/p>\n<p>      <!-- END CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p style=\"color:#333; font-size:11px;\">This article was posted: Friday, April 27, 2018  at  4:30 am<\/p>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/><!-- share and follow --><br \/>\n      <!-- end of share and follow --><\/p>\n<div class=\"print_sub\">\n<h3 class=\"sub_titles\">&#13;<br \/>\n        \t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/german-is-becoming-a-foreign-language-in-germanys-prisons.html\/print\/\" title=\"Print\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"WP-PrintIcon\" src=\"https:\/\/hw.prisonplanet.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-print\/images\/printer_famfamfam.gif\" alt=\"Print\" title=\"Print\" style=\"border: 0px;\"\/><\/a><br \/>\nPrint this page.<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<p><!--\n      \n\n<div class=\"nextpage\">\n              <\/div>\n\n \n -->    <\/p>\n<p><!--\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Gm2pZEeYN0E?list=UUvsye7V9psc-APX6wV1twLg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n--><\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/german-is-becoming-a-foreign-language-in-germanys-prisons.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Voice Of EuropeApril 27, 2018 The number of foreigners in German prisons is increasing and as a result, the use of German language is becoming problematic, the Berliner Morgenpost reports. In Hamburg, 58 percent of inmates are of foreign origin, and in Berlin, their proportion is at 47 percent. Horst Hund, chairman of the prison [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-359017","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}