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Netherlands: thousands of criminal sentences delayed as prison overcrowding reaches critical level
About 3,300 convicted individuals in the Netherlands remain free while waiting to serve their sentences, collectively owing 584 years of detention, as the country’s prisons face a severe overcrowding crisis.
Source: NL Times (19/12/2025)