Care in the community obviously has a lot to answer for in the German town of Moers, where two convicted criminals have been found tending an indoor cannabis garden containing over 1200 plants, whilst on day release from prison.
The cons had achieved trustee status by being "model prisoners", and were invited to leave the prison premises as a pre-cursor to being released having served the jail term handed out by the courts.
"Certain prisoners are allowed to leave the prison premises as their release date approach's", said Jurgen Helm, a journalist in Cologne.
Obviously in this instance the prisoners had taken advantage of this fact and had set up an indoor cannabis garden.
"It appears the prisoners planned on growing the crop, and then exporting it over the border into Holland, where its a lot easier to find a buyer for such an amount of cannabis," Helm continued.
"The idea behind the scheme is to make the offenders rehabilitation into the community as seamless as possible, by allowing the prisoner to seek work prior to his or her release."
"This way it is hoped the newly released prisoner has access to money from the moment he is released, but I'm not sure this is quite what the authorities had in mind."
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