Prison staff shortages could lead to Dutch prisoners being sent to foreign jails

The Netherlands is considering sending some criminals to foreign prisons due to a shortage of prison staff, Deputy Justice Minister Ingrid Koenradi said. The Telegraph.

The Dutch daily said Coenradi, who represents the far-right Freedom Party (PVV) in the new cabinet, is also looking at how to make the Dutch prison system “more fundamental”.

There are currently around 2,000 people in the Netherlands who should be in prison but are out because they have nowhere else to go.

A few years ago, Belgium and Norwegian prisoners of war Sent to the Netherlands, There were spare cells at the time. “Past experience shows that countries can reach agreements,” Cohenradi said, calling the plan “very possible.”

The minister is also looking at ways to reduce the number of prison officers but has scrapped the idea of ​​multi-person cells because larger cells would be more efficient. Available cells Prisons are overcrowded. She said safety issues and lack of space in some prisons are also a problem.

However, she said everyone sentenced to prison will go to prison. “The criminals will not get away with it,” she said. “The people who deserve to go to prison will go to prison.”