Dutch Prison Closure Crime-free social achievement, the crystallization of humanistic care and change
The Netherlands has 41,500 square kilometers of land and is home to around 17 million people. According to the 2013 World Happiness Index, the Netherlands is ranked 4th in the world
Not long ago, a prison in Boura, the Netherlands, was officially closed because it could only accommodate 100 prisoners in an area of 33,000 square meters.
Statistics: Between 2007 and 2015, the crime rate in the Netherlands decreased by 26%, while the proportion of prisoners in the United States was 458, with an average of 57,100,000.
In fact, prisons have been being leased and sold in the Netherlands since 2010. A prison in Amsterdam has been converted into a new residential area where thousands of families now live, while Haarlem Prison was purchased by the local government for £6.4 million and converted into a university campus.
The Netherlands closed 27 prisons in 2014 and now only 38 remain.
"These judges do not just punish criminals with prison sentences, but educate these criminals through the social welfare system and, above all, reduce crime," said the head of the Property Management Division of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. ”
The 1886 prison closed in 2014, and the 130-year-old building has attracted hundreds of investors, but no decision has been made yet.
Moreover, in 1911, hundreds of black slaves from Asia and Africa were imprisoned here, although their identities were not clearly identified.
Since the prison was open to the public for free after the official closure, with about 350 people signing up every day, in order to attract more tourists, they switched freely between "escape" and "jail", whether they were "prisoners", "prison guards", or even "prison wardens".
A tourist in England was the first to experience "** incarceration", where he would be "imprisoned" for three hours, during which he could exercise, read books, and enjoy food and dairy products provided by the "prisoners".
There are more than 400 cameras in this building, which film every corner of the place, and in order to better reproduce the scene, he will also discuss his performance with the audience, shoot all the images, and then hand them over to the tourists.
This is undoubtedly a new experience, so more and more people are coming to visit Breda, and some parents even record the video and take it out to their children** as a warning.
I heard that the local authorities don't seem to be planning to ** anymore.