Netherlands
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Netherlands: Ultra-secure prison to get its own courtroom
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
Netherlands: prison guard arrested for abusing at least three female detainees
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
Netherlands: Why the Dutch are closing prisons – and what they’re doing with empty ones
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
Netherlands: A bigger market for electronic ankle monitors
Corrections centers are stocking up on electronic monitors as they release prisoners due to Covid-19.Source — Bloomberg
The Netherlands: Why are there so few prisoners ?
The Dutch justice system is cutting jail populations by offering specialist rehabilitation to people with mental illnesses.Source — The Guardian
Netherlands: better prison food could be key in reducing re-offending
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
Pays-Bas : forcés de fermer des prisons car il y manque de détenus
This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the French version.Source — Ayoye
Netherlands: the unique way the Dutch treat mentally ill prisoners
In the Netherlands, criminals with mental illness are treated completely differently to many other countries. Melissa Hogenboom visits a Dutch prison to find out how.Source — BBC
Holanda debate suprimir la pena de cárcel por insultar al rey
This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the Spanish version.Source — La Vanguardia
Pays-Bas : faute de criminels, l'incroyable prison de Breda accueille... des entreprises
This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the French version.Source — Le Dauphiné
The Netherlands: converting prisons into homes for refugees
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
Holland: one dead after fire breaks out in a cell at Scheveningen prison
One person has been killed after fire broke out in a cell at the high security prison in Scheveningen, news agency ANP said on Thursday.Source — Dutchnews
Les Pays-Bas cherchent une utilité à leurs prisons vides
This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the French version.Source — Le Monde
Pays-Bas : fermer les prisons pour mieux les rouvrir
This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the French version.Source — Philosophie Magazine
Pays-Bas : les prisons mettent la clé sous la porte
This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the French version.Source — 24 Heures
United Kingdom: half of Scottish prison deaths in the last five years remain "unexplained"
Since 2013 64 people have died in Scottish jails with the reasons still unknown, leaving their families trapped ‘in limbo’.Source — Glasgow Live
Netherlands: Dutch get creative to solve a prison problem
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
Netherlands (Sint Maarten): inmates file injunction against Justice Minister
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
Netherlands: electronic tagging more popular: orders double in five years
Electronic tagging is being increasingly used as a punishment in the Netherlands, particular for people convicted of robbery and drugs-related crime.Source — Dutch News
The Dutch prison crisis: a shortage of prisoners
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
Netherlands : Dutch prison population falls 27% to 11,000 in five years
The number of people in prison in the Netherlands fell by 27% between 2011 and 2015 to just over 11,000, according to new figures from the justice ministry’s prison department.Source — Dutch News
