While prison populations grows in the United Kingdom and NIGERIA, with overcrowded cells and repeat offenders, the opposite is happening in the Netherlands.
UNBELIEVABLE: Netherlands Close Prisons For Lack Of Criminals
The Dutch justice ministry has announced that the country is going to close at least 8 prisons due to a lack of criminals.
According to the local media, the country has the capacity for 14,000 prisoners and there are only 12,000 detainees.
The decrease is expected to continue, the ministry said, also the natural redundancy and other measures should counter any forced lay-offs.
A last year report on prison overcrowding said that surging populations undermined the rehabilitation of prisoners and risked increasing reoffending in the future.
The Criminal Justice Alliance (CJA), which represents more than 60 organisations, called for the government to urgently limit "the unnecessary use of prison, ensuring it is reserved for serious, persistent and violent offenders for whom no alternative sanction is appropriate".
It came after Chief Inspector of Prisons Nick Hardwick said the rising pressure on prisons from budget cuts and increasing numbers cannot go on indefinitely.While prison populations grows in the United Kingdom, with overcrowded cells and repeat offenders, the opposite is happening in the Netherlands.
UNBELIEVABLE: Netherlands Close Prisons For Lack Of Criminals
The Dutch justice ministry has announced that the country is going to close at least 8 prisons due to a lack of criminals.
According to the local media, the country has the capacity for 14,000 prisoners and there are only 12,000 detainees.
The decrease is expected to continue, the ministry said, also the natural redundancy and other measures should counter any forced lay-offs.
A last year report on prison overcrowding said that surging populations undermined the rehabilitation of prisoners and risked increasing reoffending in the future.
The Criminal Justice Alliance (CJA), which represents more than 60 organisations, called for the government to urgently limit "the unnecessary use of prison, ensuring it is reserved for serious, persistent and violent offenders for whom no alternative sanction is appropriate".
It came after Chief Inspector of Prisons Nick Hardwick said the rising pressure on prisons from budget cuts and increasing numbers cannot go on indefinitely.

Nigeria will get there someday too, but how long will that take?
We still dine & wine with Corruption, high unemployment rate, youths left idle for months, our prisons will keep expanding, sure.

Good One for Netherland.

Interesting! They should kindly move the prison down here instead of shutting it down because we are really short of prisons here and the number of prisoners as the day goes by, is on the increase.

Can we lend them some of our prisoners?

how does this concern nigeria?

are you looking to ship some criminals there?

Mod abeg move diz article to fp...nígerians will soon b sentenced to netherland prisons

Awesome! Except that the level of racism there is slightly high.

However, this news tickles my fancy...

I could really use a wish right now.

this proves a theory i have preached for long -provide jobs and crime will disappear.
but we know that some sections of society -especially in highly stratified societies- prefer that some of their own people be removed and kept in jails.
it is an indirect way of maintaining their wealth and feeling secure, but the fact remains that the opposite is usually the case
good news!

emmysenior: Awesome! Except that the level of racism there is slightly high.

However, this news tickles my fancy...

I could really use a wish right now.

U wanna make a wish to go to prison cos its abroad (netherland)
Ok o
Go make we sabi how many pple remain

The only time something like this will happen in Nigeria is going to be when we will have 'Prisons Merger' just like we had in the Banking Sector...

B4 nko??When marijuana and hookers are legal..that's all a niccur needs

Thank God our nigerian brothers are doing deir stuff on a coded level over there

If prisons are transferable they should transfer them to nigeria

I hope the government can do this in Wäñkéñïstäñ, too.

They shouldnt close down the prison cos we need to do exportation of prisoners from Nigeria to Holland .

okay

If 12,000 inmates are in netherlands' prisons





And the population of Nigerians in Netherlands is high



and the number of Nigerians in Netherlands prisons is 'x'



Find x

Please don't close them yet
We will need to outsource some prisoners come 2015 when the big umblera is torn

while Nigerians are still shouting end times, its like Nertherland have already move into paradise-where there is no more crimes or voilence!

Right on point, i think we should lend them some of ours here in Nigeria and also dash buhari to them, we dont need him anymore

LMAyedun:
Nigeria will get there someday too, but how long will that take?
We still dine & wine with Corruption, high unemployment rate, youths left idle for months, our prisons will keep expanding, sure.

Good One for Netherland.