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Berlin (dpa / bb) - Christmas will also be different in Berlin prisons this year.
Because of the corona pandemic, the services should not be sung together, the Senate Department for Justice announced on Tuesday.
Only a few people could come to the devotions, but several events were planned.
According to Christmas Eve, the Protestant regional bishop Christian Stäblein is expected in the Tegel prison.
The Catholic Auxiliary Bishop Mattias Heinrich also announced that he would attend the service there and in the Heidering men's prison.
Justice Senator Dirk Behrendt (Greens) said, according to the announcement, it was a difficult festival for employees and prisoners.
He wished them strength and health for the challenges of the next weeks and months.
Christmas trees were set up in the institutions.
On Christmas Eve, potato salad with sausages is on the menu in almost all Berlin prisons.
On Christmas Day there is roasted duck leg with apple red cabbage and potatoes.
In the women's prison, the inmates can cook and eat together with the group leaders on the wards.