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Since
its
famous
Lebach
decision
in
1973,[124
]
the
Constitutional
Court
has
reiterated
that
the
sole
purpose
of
a
prison
sentence
is
rehabilitation
,
and
the
right
to
rehabilitation
is
derived
from
the
principle
of
human
dignity
and
the
humaneness
of
penalties
.
Contrary
to
its
long
-
standing
commitment
to
resocialisation
in
many
other
subsequent
landmark
judgments,[125
]
the
hidden
underlying
assumption
in
the
German
constitutional
case
-
law
on
preventive
detention
is
still
that
of
a
prison
sentence
as
a
penalty
with
its
“
purposeless
majesty
”
,
in
the
famous
words
of
Maurach.[126
]
When
the
Constitutional
Court
acknowledged
that
blameworthy
conduct
was
“
the
point
of
contact
”
(
Anknüpfungspunkt
)
of
preventive
detention
,
but
not
its
“
ground
”
(
Grund
)
,
assuming
that
a
prison
sentence
has
its
“
ground
”
on
such
conduct,[127
]
the
metaphysical
repressive
function
of
the
prison
sentence
re
-
entered
by
the
back
door
and
took
centre
stage
in
criminal
law
in
Germany
.
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