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Judges there will be able to handle the sessions of criminal cases, reducing the need to transfer detainees to courthouses elsewhere in the Netherlands. The small courtroom within the walls of the penitentiary will cost 15 million euros and is already under construction, wrote Legal Protection Mini…
Source — NL Times
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A 47-year-old prison guard has been arrested on suspicion of sexually abusing at least three female prisoners in Nieuwersluis jail.
Source — Dutch News
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Netherlands: walling up madness
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Both in its European and overseas territories, care in prisons is administered by the Ministry of Justice. Around 60% of prisoners present with at least one mental disorder. Prisoners suffering from severe disorders have to be placed in Extra Care Facilities (Extra Zorgvoorziening, EZV) present in…
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A vast X-shaped building marks the spot on an Amsterdam map that has brought a decade-long search to a close. Spread across three maxed-out campuses, with almost 1,000 students on roll, the British School of Amsterdam had struggled to keep up with the capital’s growing demand for international educ…
Source — Positive news
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ICPR and Prison Insider asked several experts worldwide to share their insights in the framework of the project ‘Understanding and reducing the use of imprisonment in 10 countries’. Michiel van de Wolf discusses the Dutch approach for dealing with those considered as mentally disordered offenders.
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Corrections centers are stocking up on electronic monitors as they release prisoners due to Covid-19.
Source — Bloomberg
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The Dutch justice system is cutting jail populations by offering specialist rehabilitation to people with mental illnesses.
Source — The Guardian
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The Netherlands should look to Scandinavian examples and allow more prisoners to prepare and cook their own food, because there is evidence that they are less likely to re-offend, according to research carried out by the justice ministry.
Source — Dutch News
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Netherlands
This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the Spanish version.
Source — La Vanguardia
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Source — Le Dauphiné
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Netherlands
Unlike the United States of America, the prison population and crime rate in the Netherlands has been steadily decreasing for years. As a result, the country’s government is repurposing correctional facilities into housing for refugees who are waiting to be granted asylum status — a process that us…
Source — Inhabitat
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This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the French version.
Source — Le Monde
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Source — Philosophie Magazine
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This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the French version.
Source — 24 Heures
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The Netherlands has a problem many countries can only dream of: a shortage of prison inmates.
While countries like Belgium, Britain, Haiti, Italy, the United States and Venezuela have grappled with prison overcrowding, the Netherlands has such a surplus of unused cells that it has rented some of it…
Source — The New York Times
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Netherlands
The Inmates Association with lawyer Sjamira Roseburg of Sulvaran and Peterson law firm is taking Government to court because the safety of the inmates at the Pointe Blanche prison cannot be guaranteed and the living conditions are terrible, according to Roseburg on Tuesday.
Source — The Daily Herald
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Netherlands
While the UK and much of the world struggles with overcrowded prisons, the Netherlands has the opposite problem. It is actually short of people to lock up. In the past few years 19 prisons have closed down and more are slated for closure next year. How has this happened - and why do some people thi…
Source — BBC News
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