What Happens When Prisons Stop Punishing People

“Inside a German prison, incarcerated people wear their own clothes, live in cell blocks that look like apartments, and some earn day passes to spend time with their loved ones outside the prison. Nearly 2 million people are incarcerated in the United States in a system built on one core idea: punishment. But what if prison was not designed to punish? In this episode of “Inside Story,” host Lawrence Bartley — who was incarcerated for 27 years — travels to Hamelin, Germany, to see a radically diff”