Dutch prisons are giving inmates keys to their cells

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Prisoners in the Netherlands are being given keys to their cells as part of a rehabilitation scheme that allows them to let themselves in and out before 9:30pm.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/dutch-prisons-inmates-keys-cells-netherlands-dordrecht-heerhugowaard-zaandam-arnhem-a7838586.html?amp
Inmates in Dordrecht, Heerhugowaard, Zaandam and Arnhem have keys and a digital screen which they can use to order groceries and make appointments with other prisoners or staff.

Dutch prison guards have expressed anger over the policy, claiming it offers “too little supervision” and fails to vindicate victims of crime.

They fear that the freedom is being abused and prisoners are running criminal enterprises when they are not behind bars. As a result they have protested to the Dutch Department of Justice.

“There is too little supervision," Rob Minkes, the chairman of the prison department’s work council, told the Algemeen Dagblad newspaper. "These prisoners can do everything by themselves, without supervision.

"The risk is that they continue with their criminal businesses because they can chat with each other for long periods and without interruption. It is also easier to trade drugs.”

We also owe it to the victims of crimes to first make sure that it benefits society.”

The country’s justice ministry has nonetheless defended the scheme, claiming it aims to encourage prisoners and give them more responsibility.

A falling prison population, which currently stands at 11,600, has lead to jails closing in the country. The country’s overall population hit 17 million in March last year, according to Statistics Netherlands.

As a result, last September, the country imported 240 prisoners from Norway to keep its prisons full.

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Kamiti pia sio kubaya sana…wote wako na simu na credit mingi sana ya kupigia watu na ku text.

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Kwani they have started having prisoners

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Mzungu anakuwaga na huruma sana na mzungu mwenzake. Hata ikuwe ni crime mbaya aje they will try to understand what could have lead you to do that. He or she was abused as a child. It was the drugs.
He had multiple personalities…
ni kichwa iliharibika.

There was the guy who shot hundreds of people
anders breivik in Norway.
The way they were treating him in court, he was like a child being scolded for being a national shame.
for 79 murders akapewa 21 years!

Huku hata kabla ufungue mdomo kujitetea,“hata sio mi…” ndio hio mafuta taa, kibiriti na mawe. Na labda sio wewe! Like that ktn anchor who was given mob justice at a stage.

Hata kama ni slum na mafuta taa ni expensive, afadhali walale njaa na kwa giza lakini uchomwe uishe. Forget the fact that you always did kind deeds in the past until today. pamba na yeye ndio huyo, “nyang’au, hii kichwa lazma nijue inakaa aje ndani. Nitoe hizo madimoni zote na hii risasi!”

Fyodor Dostoevsky put it best when he said, “The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.”

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the Dutch are on anutha level. a level Kenya won’t get to at least not until AD 20100

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Sio ngumu. These countries were not that rich so long ago. They are always lecturing us here through their NGOs lakini hatuskii:“Open society, open society, open society…”

Be an open society. Be clean stop stealing.Share the national cake equitably. Ukienda hizo countries they treat all citizens equally. Wakisema free medical not for wenye nchi but for all. Kama ni transport hata minister wao anatumia train kama nyinyi na ni mzuri. Simple sharing. In an open society people don’t see the need to steal. You won’t even need prisons. Unaiba nini na ndio ile kazi pale si uchukue ufanye ulipwe! Jobs open to everyone not select tribes or persons. A very simple system of governance.

Unaiba ya nini and you can afford almost everything you need to survive? You’ll even look like an idiot when you steal there. lakini huku mtu mmoja ati anaiba billions. Na hutatumia. Ukauliza mtu kama biwott how many extra eggs or plates of food he ate with the extra looted billions… hakuna. Same single plate as before. Can you drive 20 luxury cars at a time? Nope! You only need one. Greed.

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True. I just feel we will take that long to get there, if we don’t accept change as a society. but kufika tutafika

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They should try that in Kenya. Prisoners would really appreciate it.