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Published Hamburg, GermanyUpdated

Prisons Overcrowded: Replacement Prison Sentences Must Be Served Again in Hamburg

Summary by Welt
If you don't pay your fine, you have to go to prison. However, because they are so full in Hamburg, no one had to take his punishment in the past six months.

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If you don't pay your fine, you have to go to prison. However, because they are so full in Hamburg, no one had to take his punishment in the past six months.

·Dortmund, Germany
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Those who don't pay their fine must go to prison: because of full prisons, this was last suspended in Hamburg. This is now over. [more] Replacement prison sentences in Hamburg are being enforced again

·Hamburg, Germany
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The "Freedom Fund" initiative bought the release of around 110 people from German prisons on Thursday. They had been caught on the train without a ticket. A woman from Hamburg was among them. The "Freedom Fund" bought the release of a 54-year-old woman from Hamburg's Billwerder correctional facility. She was supposed to serve a 50-day sentence there, but was released after six days, the initiative explained in response to an inquiry from Hinz&Ku…

Hamburg (dpa/lno) – Half a year after the suspension of the execution of replacement prison sentences in Hamburg due to full prisons, these must now be served again. "Since 1 June 2025, convicted persons who have not paid their fines are again invited to enter the prison," says the senate's answer to a written little question from the right-wing spokesman of the CDU citizenship faction, Richard Seelmaecker. The judicial authority had interrupted…

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SAT.1 REGIONAL broke the news in on Thursday, June 12, 2025.
Sources are mostly out of Germany (2)

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