People behind bars: How do they live? What is their daily life like? And what exactly happens in prison "in the name of the people"? Do we even want to know what becomes of people after they have been convicted as criminals and locked away? And what about the men and women who work as staff in these institutions—often also serving life sentences? Joachim Walter was, among other things, deputy director of the Stuttgart-Stammheim prison and head of the juvenile detention centers in Pforzheim and Adelsheim. Drawing on his decades of professional experience, he tells vivid, yet always true, stories about the people in prison—inmates and staff alike—leaving it to the readers to form their own opinions about the sense and nonsense of the penal system. He includes facts and figures about the German penal system that we should all know. Biography Dr. Joachim Walter is a professor at the Protestant University of Applied Sciences in Freiburg. New product