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Anyone can visit the smallest prison in the German state of Saxony just by ringing the doorbell at an ordinary house in Dresden. Usually, jails have locks, bars on the windows and security procedures but this prison is focused on helping the inmates deal with freedom instead. Anke Söldner, who runs the facility, opens the door and explains that here, the social fabric keeps people in, the same way that bars on the doors and windows of other jails do. “People feel well integrated here and so they don’t run away,” she says. The prison is the first of its kind in Germany, according to the state J…