Show The Largest Prison in Europe The house of detention which has just been opened in Berlin and to which all the prisoners male and female who are awaiting trial have been removed is the largest prison in Europe There are six different buildings the mens prison being four stories high with 732 single cells several large rooms holding in all 195 prisoners 40 rooms for the wardens and sleeping accomoda tions for 119 other employes Each of the cells has a window ten feet high and an arched roof the furniture furni-ture consisting of a bed and stool fixed to the wall and a washing apparatus There is also an electric bell a cupboard a closet and a gas burner placed above a small table The prisoners can if they please read or write all night long On the ground floor are twentysix cells for prisoners accused of murder or known to belong to the criminal class and in these are plank beds There are halt a dozen cells underground under-ground for prisoners who are guilty of discipline and in the infirmary ring there are nine rooms for prisoners prison-ers of good position in society which are furnished with some approach ap-proach to luxury There are also two or three suites of apartments reserved for persons who are awaiting await-ing trial for political offenses and I who are to be allowed to furnish them to their own taste The kitchen baths and heating apparatus appa-ratus are all on the area floor and the interior of the building which is of iron is so constructed as to form a large hall in the center which reaches up to the roof There is a telephone between the prison and the Assize Court so that prisoners prison-ers can be sent there without having hav-ing to wait The prison for women contains seventy single cells and fifteen large dormitories there being accomodations for 220 women altogether The dormitories are partitionedjoffso that each occupant I can be placed under lock and key for the night and there are three or four large Workrooms in which prisoners will be employed in the daytime under the surveillance of female wardens As in the mens prison there is a spacious exercise ground and separate chapel I |