SoylentNews is people
SoylentNews
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 think it's a problem?
...
"In the Dutch service we look at the individual," says Van der Spoel."If somebody has a drug problem we treat their addiction, if they are aggressive we provide anger management, if they have got money problems we give them debt counselling. So we try to remove whatever it was that caused the crime. The inmate himself or herself must be willing to change but our method has been very effective. Over the last 10 years, our work has improved more and more."
He adds that some persistent offenders - known in the trade as "revolving-door criminals" - are eventually given two-year sentences and tailor-made rehabilitation programmes. Fewer than 10% then return to prison after their release. In England and Wales, and in the United States, roughly half of those serving short sentences reoffend within two years, and the figure is often higher for young adults.
(Score: 2) by fritsd on Saturday November 12 2016, @11:35AM
Right.
You're not the only one who can spin a story, jmorris. Look at this:
<flame>
- The USA wanted to attack Iraq
- George W. Bush convinces his poodle, the UK's Tony B. Liar, to come along and form a "coalition of the willing", so it's not just the USA to blame (pity that George Michael videoclip "shoot the dog" has been removed from Youtube for some reason)
- Germany and France are scolded in the press for being too cowardly to join in the fun
- Mesopotamia is completely destabilized, the power hierarchy is scattered and the generals are suddenly all unemployed and looking for new "challenges"
- Out of the chaos Daesh emerges
- Daesh turns out to be a very effective tyranny, and grows and spreads
- Literally millions of people flee Syria and Iraq; a bit more than 1 million make it to Europe (many more in Turkey and Jordan)
- When too many of them are stuck in Budapest, Merkel understands that a radical ad-hoc solution is needed
- Merkel announces that they can all come to Germany, where they'll be put in camps, processed, and sent back if necessary, all at the cost of the German taxpayer. It is an inferior solution, politically dangerous, but better than the default option: "let them all die on the streets of Hungary, or maybe Jobbik [wikipedia.org]'s "second amendment people" will think of something".
SO WHAT DO THE RIGHT-WING PRESS REPORT AFTER ALL OF THIS?
"IT'S ALL MERKEL'S FAULT"
</flame>
And you, jmorris, you believe that.