In the Netherlands, we’re closing our emptying prisons. What can other countries learn from how we did it? | Renate van der Zee
The Dutch prison population has fallen by more than 40% – and awareness of the harms of harsh sentencing could explain why Yesterday, I went to the cinema in the Dome prison in Haarlem. This monumental building – a vast, panopticon-style facility first opened in 1901 – is one of more than 20 Dutch prisons…