Why are there so few prisoners in the Netherlands?

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The Dutch justice system is cutting jail populations by offering specialist rehabilitation to people with mental illnesses

When Stefan Koning, who has a history of psychosis, was found guilty of threatening a stranger with a knife, a long custodial sentence might have felt like the only answer.“Bob is a character from Twin Peaks, a murderer who creeps into the skin of innocent people and makes them do terrible things like murder,” says Koning. “There’s a Bob in me who says ‘kill this person’, that sort of thing. If I take my medicines, Bob is quiet.

 

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We have more crazy violent people outside than inside , don’t pretend this is a good soliton . Prisons have been closed due to shortcuts.

those rehabilitation programmes are awful. so called therapists are too young, inexperienced and gullible.

Don’t know - do they deport them?

A place where peace lives Crime never live there.

BobandRoberta Because it's expensive to build prison cells for tall people?

Bad policing? Great criminals?

There’s “a growing tendency in the Netherlands to avoid jailing people unless it is necessary. One key aspect of this is a prodigious program of care in the community for people with psychiatric problems.” Imagine that.

The name is marijuana.

Is it that the criminals don't get caught?

I'd imagine it's down to a functional government.

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