Tuesday, March 15, 2011

BELGIUM - Brussels reinvents the Penal Colony

"Belgium has reinvented the exile," laments the daily. In February 2010 the Netherlands had surrendered to authorities Tilburg Belgian prison to help them fight against overcrowding. A year later, it was a fiasco: "Tilburg releasable houses 220 inmates whose cases are stuck due to lack of staff, but also because of practical difficulties in preparing a reclassification plan to place hundreds of miles of potential for rehabilitation" , accused the International Observatory of Prisons.

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  1. ehm, hundreds of miles? _every_ city in Belgium is with a 100 mile range of Tilburg. Most major cities are within 50 miles of Tilburg. So that part of the article is nonsense. Makes me wonder about the rest..

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