The Netherlands have a strange problem: Empty prisons

If you were to visit a prison in the Netherlands anytime soon, you might find it surprisingly empty. Just this week, the Dutch justice ministry announced that the total number of inmates held in Dutch prisons fell by 27 percent between 2011 and 2015. To put the Dutch situation into an American context, a 27 percent drop […]

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2016/07/08/the-netherlands-have-a-strange-problem-empty-prisons/