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Going Dutch: Can we follow the Netherlands and cut our prison population?
from the article by Vicki Helyar-Cardwell on Huffington Post:
Since 2004 the total numbers incarcerated in the Netherlands has fallen from more than 20,000 to less than 15,000. The Dutch Ministry of Justice expects the number of prisoners to continue to decline and to average less than 9,000 by 2015. The Netherlands now uses the spare capacity to lease space at Tilburg jail to house 500 prisoners from Belgium, whose prisons are severely overcrowded. Last week the new French Justice Minister outlined plans to reform prisons, and she is widely expected to re-orientate budgets away from prison building to rehabilitation.
Jul 03, 2012 Policy, Politics, Country:Netherlands, Region: Europe
