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on the site of the demolished building. These plans were adjusted in the following years. Five additional buildings were built between 2007 and 2017, connected to a tract built in 2005. Together, the extensions can house up to 559 prisoners. The two original buildings were renovated from 2019 onwards to provide capacity for a total of 822 inmates in
Stammheim prison.
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656:'Well, some anonymous person sent a letter to the prisoners, with ropes or such things, telling them to go and hang themselves, and they got past the censor,' replied Bubeck. 'Yes, it would have done the job,' agreed the prison officer One deputy suggested, 'Perhaps they were sent pistols by post?' There was laughter.
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guidebook. This guidebook was later displayed in an exhibition in
Stuttgart about the RAF. According to a subsequent independent commission's investigation, the items were hidden among case files and brought to the seventh-floor cells by the prisoners via their lawyers. The security breach occurred
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reportedly committed suicide in the high-security wing, an event that became known as the "Night of Death in
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