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posted by martyb on Saturday November 12 2016, @12:01AM   Printer-friendly
from the saving-more-than-just-money dept.

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?
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"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.


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  • (Score: -1, Flamebait) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday November 12 2016, @02:12AM

    by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Saturday November 12 2016, @02:12AM (#425898) Homepage

    I doubt it's "stress" and believe it's political pressure where the officers are actually being punished for putting their lives at risk to apprehend immigrants savage beyond their imagination. The objective is to induce learned helplessness into the population as a means of removing all power the population has to work together to achieve its best interests against those who seek to exploit and control them. The European Muslims, like the American Blacks, are spun as rebels fighting for freedom and justice but in reality are merely the attack-dogs of the elite.

    This is exactly what is going on in America now, the beginnings of a color revolution with the same structure (albeit different demographics) as in Ukraine, Syria, and some Eastern European countries around the time of the Yugoslav wars.

    You get a few charismatic people in the know recruiting useful idiots going along with the tide of righteousness, indoctrinate them into protocols (What do do if attacked by police. What to do if questioned by media. What to do if...) which makes them predictable enough so that their movements and intentions can be determined and controlled. Take them in to neighboring cities and counties by the busload on George Soros' dime. Roll into them the angry feral Blacks and disgruntled Muslims, have the ATF or the CIA run some unserialized street guns to them, have one of their own (or a hired gun from Dubai-based Frontier-Services group, aka Blackwater, aka Xe, aka Academi) pick off one of the "peaceful" protesters and have the interest-controlled media circle-jerk the whole thing in an attempt to get more and more to rise up to whatever the controller's whims are.

    Yeah, no. Good luck with that. It might be ugly, but the true patriots will win.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 12 2016, @03:23AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 12 2016, @03:23AM (#425910)

    I doubt it's "stress" and believe it's political pressure where the officers are actually being punished for putting their lives at risk to apprehend immigrants savage beyond their imagination.

    I don't understand the narrative here. Say these poor cops can't go after the savage immigrants; what happened to all the Dutch criminals they built those prisons for in the first place? Why can't they arrest them?

    Did these scary immigrants put all the thieves out of work by stealing the same things for less than minimum wage? (I thought that was the America vs. Wetbacks narrative, not Europe vs. Ragheads...) What is the native criminal class doing now, instead of crime? Just starving to death, but not stealing for food?

    • (Score: 1, Troll) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday November 12 2016, @03:35AM

      by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Saturday November 12 2016, @03:35AM (#425916) Homepage

      You're using a misdirection. Go arrest Islamic immigrants with a criminal record or who have demonstrated criminal behavior and make that public. Make public the arrest record. What, you can't? Well, Merkel has you by the balls, then. Your proposition cannot happen because it will be stopped in the intermediate stages by those who have more power than you do. And that's the nut of this problem.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 12 2016, @08:29PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 12 2016, @08:29PM (#426122)

        Well, Merkel has you by the balls, then.

        Merkel? What the fuck does Merkel have to do with Holland? I realize your racism knows no bounds but it should at least recognize the borders between counties you know little or nothing about.

        • (Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday November 12 2016, @11:13PM

          by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Saturday November 12 2016, @11:13PM (#426151) Homepage

          Merkel has everything to do with this, for she is the de-facto public face of the rulers of Europe, and the one who says that all European countries must accept immigrant savages.

          Yeah, I am well aware that she is of Germany, but if you knew anything about Europe then you would have understood why I wrote that and not have to make me explain.

          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 13 2016, @12:48AM

            by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 13 2016, @12:48AM (#426166)

            I know plenty about Europe. I just disagree with your "Everything is on Merkel" myopic viewpoint. I guess you just have an affinity for certain portions of German history that share your xenophobic views and despise Merkel for not seeing things your way.