European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 3, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Ifs not like the average admit americans in German package Laden Nurnberg jag staff members visit prison have Brotzel bread a mid morning break when inmates get a Small snack of bread and after its Back inmates Are released from their work areas at for the noon All the some 500 hurry Back to their cells to get their plates and the Days one hot meal is served in cell blocks at they bring your food in said an american Soldier serving time in the you get your plate and grab what you one american working on the feeding detail said each prisoner is Given a handful of a half handful of salad and one Finger length piece of meat which weighs about Iso Grams the prisoners have Little time to waste Over their they must be Back at work by at 4 the men finish their Days after an hour to walk around the exer Cise the men have their final food of the it consists of a 150gram piece of Wurst and Lea 1 lost 17 Kilos about 37 pounds during the first four months i was said an american who has been in the prison for 17 but Ive picked up some weight recently so 1 guess in getting used to american soldiers talk Here about conditions in an american military stockade As if that were luxury in military pretrial said one each Day you get three hot meals and a Shower and people you can talk you can Wear your own clean you changed bed Linen once a Here you get one hot meal a one Shower a prison clothes once a which May or May not be and there Are clean bed clothes once a he but american soldiers serving time at Georgen said they miss the american culture most of the americans say its evenings when they have time to think and get time passes slowly if we didst have playing one wed go the prison offers social programs and classes in the evenings to help inmates learn How to live within but they Are All in German and the americans dont speak it Well enough to take some of them were learning German from tape but authorities said terrorist gang members in some prisons used recordings to smuggle plans to terrorists so All tape equipment and recordings Are now banned from the that ended German lessons for the Ameri instead of working through n pro Grams designed to help German the american inmates depend on other americans for members of the 1st army div Law Center at Nurnberg make monthly visits to american soldiers who Are inmates at the during these the inmates make their needs known to Paul Conderman and his staff from the International affairs Section at the Law Soldier inmates get a allowance from the government to buy health and Comfort items such As shaving prod hair grooming Candy and but there is no american outlet where the americans can buy these the jag staff helps the inmates by going to the buying the needed items and bringing them we really dont have to do said 6 Don a Legal specialist help ing the we want to help them but sometimes the lists get very specific and they dont hesitate to americans from area military communities bring Comfort of a different chaplain David Golden from 1st 2nd army Cav and the Dwayne a civilian minister from schedule visits at least every other monday night to talk with the men and conduct Bible inmates said that visits by these minis ters seem to be much More than they visit much oftener than once every alternate monday the prisoners and members of the army Chapel at bind Lach have adopted the inmates As their Spe Cial Mission and also visit the american a Consul from the american consulate general in Munich visits american civil ians at the prison once each help from americans outside has allowed the soldiers inside to help isling materials bought and crafted in the prison shop some soldiers have Learned How to sculpture Copper Wall bang their work is then sold through chapels in Nurnberg and at Herzo Golden the Money they make goes to support families Back some of the men turn out work As Good As any on the there were some problems when the terrorists were Active and we were trying to visit the said an army Chapel Martin Oster from but things have been going much easier since an Effort is under Way to win Holiday passes for american prisoners such As those those Given to germans at the but americans have used such passes to flee the country in the hence this Issue is still being still the inmates would rather be any where in the states than in Georgen prison i would leave to serve my sen tence in Leavenworth in a said one i would Trade an Lightyear sentence there for a six year sentence but guards As Well As inmates admit the prison int like the average i 1978 the stars and stripes Page is