BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's constitutional court ruled on Tuesday against overpricing phone calls made by prison inmates, saying that disregarding the economic interests of prisoners violates their constitutional right to rehabilitation.
A detainee in a correctional facility in the northern state of Schleswig Holstein filed a lawsuit in July, 2015 against the prison for significantly increasing the costs of phone calls.
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