U.S. officials look to Europe to learn how to make prison better

Criminal Justice

U.S. officials look to Europe to learn how to make prison better November 11, 20265:00 AM ET

Meg Anderson

A group of Americans, whose work intersects with the criminal justice system in New York City, tour the Moabit pretrial detention facility in Berlin, Germany. The nonprofit Vera Institute of Justice invites officials to tour prisons in Germany to see how they design their system for rehabilitation. Lena Mucha hide caption

Lena Mucha

More than a dozen New Yorkers crowded into an empty prison cell in Berlin, Germany, this October. Inside, they found many contrasts to U.S. prisons: For one, prisoners held at this German facility, Tegel Prison, have keys to their own cells.