Broadway hoofing, tap and above all, ballet. Sensual, dazzling, daring ballet. Choreographer Christopher Wheeldon has had such an impact, he makes ballet fun to watch even for people who think they will hate it. Sharyn alfonsi bubba watson is lefthanded, selftaught and looking for his third green jacket next weekend at the masters in augusta. A Pretty Amazing story, but you havent heard the half of it. I have a lot of mental issues that i just have been so fearful of things which i shouldnt be, right . Scared of heights, scared of buildings falling on me, scared of the dark, scared of crowds, those are my biggest issues. Alfonsi how do you reconcile that when you have to go out there and play golf with hundreds of people around you . Bubba i am just scared of people. Im steve kroft. Im leslie stahl. Im bill whitaker. Im Sharyn Alfonsi. Im scott pelley. Those stories tonight on 60 minutes. This portion of 60 minutes is sponsored by ford service. 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The Main Objective of german prisons is rehabilitation, not retribution. Germany spends less money on prisons, but gets better results. Their recidivism rate is about half the u. S. Rate. We wondered if germany had found a key to prison reform. So we visited three german prisons, but our trip started in a small resort town about 100 miles north of berlin. When the weathers warm, the lakeside town of waren, germany attracts families and tourists. We found bernd junge there with his sister and niece out for a stroll, eating ice cream sundaes an innocent scene if ever there was one. But junge is a convicted murderer, currently serving a life sentence for a contract killing. He shot a woman to death in cold blood. We spoke with him by the lake. This is part of your sentence. This is part of your punishment . Bernd junge translated well this is about being reintegrated into a normal life and that means rehabilitation and all that, so for me, yes, this is part of it. Whitaker this doesnt look much like punishment. Junge yes, well thats the german fairy tale. Whitaker after 15 years in prison hes earned weekend leave for Good Behavior. Hes on track for early release. In germany, 75 of lifers are paroled after 20 years or less. Joerg jesse if someone says to himself its a german fairy tale, if he doesnt commit any crimes anymore after release, its okay. He can think about his imprisonment, what he wants. Whitaker joerg jesse is a psychologist by training. Hes now director of prisons in mecklenburgwestern pomerania, a state in north germany along the baltic, about the size of new hampshire. There are rich fields here, brilliant sunsets, and waldeck the maximum security prison where bernd junge is serving time. Should he have a future for himself . He took a life. Jesse yes, he should. Whitaker he should . Jesse he should. Whitaker jesse invited us to waldeck to show us how the german system works. Jesse the real goal is re integration into society, train them to find a different way to handle their situation outside, life without further crimes, life without creating new victims, things like that. Whitaker where does punishment come in . Jesse the incarceration, the imprisonment itself is punishment. The loss of freedom, thats it. Whitaker i think americans think crime and punishment. You say punishment is not even part of the goal of the german prison. Jesse no. Whitaker at all . Jesse not at all. Whitaker so life inside prison mirrors life outside as much as possible. Germans call it normalization. It starts with small prison populations. Lowlevel offenders get fines or probation. Prison is reserved for the worst of the worst murderers, rapists, career criminals. We were surprised how quiet and peaceful it was inside waldeck. We wondered where all the inmates were. It turns out they were relaxing outside on this sunny day. This is unbelievable. Youre in for murder and you have a key to your cell. Cells have doors, not bars. Its for privacy. Inmates can decorate as they please. We saw Joerg Muehlbach playing video games in his cell. He told us he was convicted of large scale cocaine trafficking and gun possession. Hes serving seven years. Compared to cells in the United States this is quite luxurious. Joerg muehlbach translated yes, it is comfortable here. As a prisoner here, its alright. Whitaker he says being separated from his family makes prison hard, not the conditions. He has a private bathroom and things that would give american Prison Guards the jitters. You have darts. Youve got a letter opener. You have legs on the table that you could break off and use as a club. Youve got quite a bit of freedom in here . Muehlbach gosh, i havent even thought about that. Here this is normal. Whitaker muehlbachs day is normal too. He gets up and goes to work in the prison kitchen. After his shift, theres r r darts in the common room, Beach Volleyball in the yard. Theres a lot to do, he told us. Muehlbach painting course, pottery, soccer, gym, crocheting. Whitaker painting and crochet . Muehlbach yes, painting and crochet. And in crochet we make hats, oven mitts, whatever you need. Whitaker we visited several german prisons and were amazed how laid back everybody seemed at each of them, prisoners and guards. Heidering prison, outside berlin, is as clean and bright as a google campus. The prison is surrounded by fences, not walls, so inmates can see the outside world. The prison uniform . Street clothes. For the inmate who finds this too stressful, theres yoga. This probably isnt the image that comes to mind when most americans think of german prisons. Thats likely to conjure up brutal images from world war ii. But following that war, respect for the Human Dignity and freedom of all people was written into the german constitution. Privacy is sacrosanct. There is no death penalty. At old facilities like tegel in berlin, or new ones like heidering, the focus is on humane treatment and rehabilitation. Prison guards are key. Theyre well paid and highly trained. They spend two years learning psychology, communication skills, conflict management. Jesse calls them calm down experts. Jesse calming down, calming down, calming down. Not showing power too much. Not showing guns. Not showing weapons. Whitaker they use solitary confinement, sparingly. Jesse says theres little violence in german prisons. How do you explain that . Jesse if you treat them as if they are your enemy, they will react as enemies. They will react as dangerous. Whitaker in fact, many of them are dangerous. We were up there on a row where everyone you ask was in for murder, murder, murder. Jesse theyre all human beings, and they know a violent manner. And we do exactly the other way around. Dont be aggressive. Show them that there is a different kind of conversation possible. Whitaker the conversation starts right away. Its based on therapy. Psychologists make an initial assessment of all new inmates and devise personalized prison plans for them recommendations for counseling, classes, Vocational Training and work. Inmates who follow the plan earn greater freedoms and early release. Jesse we cannot see the sense in just locking people up for their whole lives. Your prisons will fill up and youll have to build new prisons and so on and i think that was the situation in the u. S. Whitaker with more than two million inmates in u. S. Prisons, more americans are coming to germany seeking solutions. American tour its like a dorm. This would be a nice dorm room for the ivy league. Whitaker we joined u. S. Prison and Law Enforcement officials on this tour in berlin. Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy was part of the group. He was impressed by what he saw. Dan malloy i can tell you, they have a lower crime rate than we do. They have a lower recidivism rate than we do, and theyre spending a lot less money on jails. Whitaker in the u. S. , weve got much greater access to guns. Weve got race as a factor and ethnicity as a factor. Are the things being done here directly transferable to the United States . Malloy i think there are many things that are transferable. That doesnt mean that its a perfect fit. But i think we have to challenge ourselves to do better. Whitaker this doesnt have the same vibe, doesnt feel like the prisons in germany at all. John wetzel little bit more intense, maybe. Whitaker little bit more intense. John wetzel is pennsylvanias secretary of corrections. Three years ago, he went to germany looking for ideas to improve his prisons. He showed us around graterford, outside philadelphia. Its the largest maximum security prison in pennsylvania. 3,300 prisoners are packed in here. We were walking through an 80 yearold cell block. Wetzel ill stop back. Whitaker when this inmate approached, he said he was a low level drug offender. Prisoner sometimes, it be leaking on the block, people dying in their cells, the water stinks. Did you smell the water . Water smells like its coming out of the sewer hole. Wetzel youre preaching to the choir. Ive done as much as i could for. Prisoner i mean, for real, there aint nothing but poor black and latino people in the jail. Its bad in here man, its bad. Wetzel yeah . I mean, look around. Prisoner its bad. Whitaker wetzel started as a prison guard three decades ago. Back in 1980, there were 8,000 inmates in the state. Today, there are 50,000. Physical and sexual assaults are a fact of life. At graterford, there are more than 700 lifers. Wetzel pennsylvanias a state where life means life. So, if youre doing life here youre not going to be Walking Around a park eating sundaes with your family. Whitaker when wetzel was in germany, joerg jesse gave him a tour of waldeck. You were skeptical. Wetzel it almost sounded like disneyland. Oh, theres very few inmates. Inmates have their own keys and everybody gets along and everythings hunkydory. I mean, whos buying that story . Not me. By the end of his visit, wetzel was buying it. He started implementing some of the things he saw in germany, like more intensive staff training, greater freedom for inmates with Good Behavior and programs to help them reenter society. We, the american public, called for tougher sentencing, throwing away the key. Are we there for this more lenient approach . Wetzel i think our culture, we dont want to think lenient. We dont want to think soft. We got here by being tough on crime. I think were getting away from it by being smart on crime, and smart on crime happens to be more lenient. Whitaker sometimes, germans think their prisons are too lenient. But the system is mandated and protected by the countrys highest court. There are problems. They have gangs. They have drugs. Theyve seen signs of islamic radicalization. They try to counter it all with counseling. But there are inmates deemed too dangerous to release. They wind up in something called preventive detention. At berlins tegel prison, we met chris templiner. He has spent the last 18 years not knowing when or if hell ever get out. Chris templiner they think im dangerous so what can i say . What can i show them . I dont know. Whitaker you did bad things . Templiner really bad things, yes. Whitaker he wouldnt tell us his crimes and german privacy laws kept us from finding out. His life is confined to this wellappointed, apartmentlike building. Look around, this is life in prison for germanys worst offenders. You expect to be here until you die . Templiner maybe. Yes. Whitaker but convicted murderer bernd junge expects to get out in september. He stuck to his plan and earned the freedom to leave prison every day for work a maintenance job at the nearby port. You could escape if you wanted to. Bernd junge yes. Whitaker but you dont . Junge no. Whitaker why not . Junge translated very simple. My time is almost over. And i want to be done with this chapter of my life, once and for all. Whitaker at pennsylvanias graterford prison, this is where murderers are housed, locked up 23 hours a day. Im still hungry. Still hungry. Wetzel i think more now than any time in the history of our country we have the right and left agree that weve frankly screwed up the Corrections System for 30 years and its time to do something different. It really starts with understanding that, you know, a humanbeings value isnt diminished by being incarcerated. Whitaker what youre talking about requires a huge mind shift on the part of all of us. Wetzel its crossing the grand canyon is what were talking about. 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Last spring, he pulled off a coup only a very few dance makers have ever done he directed choreographed a smash broadway musical. It was inspired by the gene kelly movie an american in paris, with music by george and ira gershwin. It received 12 tony nominations and proved that wheeldon can make ballet fun to watch, even for people who think theyll hate it. An american in paris is a love story. Its also a valentine to dance, all kinds broadway hoofing, tap and above all, ballet. Sensual, dazzling, daring ballet. Not only did Christopher Wheeldon choreograph the show, he also directed it, something hed never done before, and that was scary. Christopher wheeldon good. Ok, good guys. Well done. Stahl you gave new meaning to the expression, learn on the job . Wheeldon yeah. Stahl for sure. Wheeldon in at the deep end. Stahl because you had never directed anything with words. Wheeldon they probably couldnt see the sweat kind of trickling down the back of my neck. Ive got rhythm. Stahl it didnt hurt that he had music by the gershwins to work with. Who could ask for anything more . Wheeldon ready . Stahl he started with what he knew best the dancing and ballet dancers, Robbie Fairchild and leanne cope. For wheeldon, learning on the job turned out pretty okay. The show is a big hit, and he won a tony for best choreography. The critics just loved the show. Was it a turning point in your life . Wheeldon i certainly felt like a door was flung open. Stahl for now, wheeldon is taking what he learned from broadway back into his first and abiding love, classical ballet, which he discovered as a little boy growing up in a small village in the south west of england. When he was seven, he talked his parents into letting him take ballet lessons. Wheeldon i was hooked from the getgo. Stahl what was the getgo . Wheeldon the getgo was a little Ballet School in a village hall and a bunch of girls around the barres on the side of the hall and it was the first place that i felt really at home. Stahl at ten, he auditioned and was accepted at the royal Ballet School known as white lodge, a boarding school in londons richmond park, originally the Hunting Lodge for the royal family. Up to the