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Re: Dutch Prisons Are Closing Because The Country Is So Safe by centyboy: 10:57pm On Mar 30, 2016
vanity upon vanity... cry
Re: Dutch Prisons Are Closing Because The Country Is So Safe by endove(f): 10:58pm On Mar 30, 2016
tell me something
Re: Dutch Prisons Are Closing Because The Country Is So Safe by ElFenomeno1: 10:58pm On Mar 30, 2016
akreest:
I know a lot of Naija guys who would like to go to prison there!!!!!

Even you
Anything as long as you escape Nigeria grin
Re: Dutch Prisons Are Closing Because The Country Is So Safe by babamadiba(m): 10:58pm On Mar 30, 2016
lolaxavier:


What is dis one saying
u asked him to talk about 9ja now, he just did.
Re: Dutch Prisons Are Closing Because The Country Is So Safe by macaranta(m): 10:58pm On Mar 30, 2016
Nice
Re: Dutch Prisons Are Closing Because The Country Is So Safe by Kakayaraznits(m): 10:59pm On Mar 30, 2016
Imagine!!! A country where marijuana is legal!!! Well!!! "Another man's food is another man's poison."

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Re: Dutch Prisons Are Closing Because The Country Is So Safe by 9jatatafo(m): 10:59pm On Mar 30, 2016
Let them import prisoners from kirikiri
Re: Dutch Prisons Are Closing Because The Country Is So Safe by demolinka(m): 10:59pm On Mar 30, 2016
Where we dey export prisoners, dem dey import am Aiye o!
Re: Dutch Prisons Are Closing Because The Country Is So Safe by solpat(m): 11:00pm On Mar 30, 2016
lolaxavier:
Crowd wey dey kuje prison go fill the entire prison for holland



Crowd wey dey Kuje prisons dey learn. Go to PH prisons or Kaduna convict prisons, you go hail.
Re: Dutch Prisons Are Closing Because The Country Is So Safe by labamo07(m): 11:00pm On Mar 30, 2016
Holland should import Dasuki, Saraki and Mrs Frog eyes Allison, since they are afraid of going to Kuje prison.....................
Re: Dutch Prisons Are Closing Because The Country Is So Safe by SirWarlock: 11:01pm On Mar 30, 2016
freshness2020:
What a country.
I dey tell u
I wonder if Nigeria will be close to being dat safe cry
Re: Dutch Prisons Are Closing Because The Country Is So Safe by Deefuray(f): 11:01pm On Mar 30, 2016
can this ever happen in Nigeria

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Re: Dutch Prisons Are Closing Because The Country Is So Safe by 4nobody4every1: 11:03pm On Mar 30, 2016
dominique:
Will Nigeria ever be like this? embarassed sad

Make they come import prisoners from Nigeria naa
grin

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Re: Dutch Prisons Are Closing Because The Country Is So Safe by Nobody: 11:04pm On Mar 30, 2016
i trust naija,prison they open everyday
Re: Dutch Prisons Are Closing Because The Country Is So Safe by Super101: 11:05pm On Mar 30, 2016
lolaxavier:
In 2013, 19 prisons in the Netherlands closed because the country didn't have enough criminals to fill them.

Now, five more are slated to close their doors by the end of the summer, according to internal documents obtained by The Telegraaf.

While these closures will result in the loss of nearly 2,000 jobs, only 700 of which will transition into other unknown roles within Dutch law enforcement, the trend of closing prisons follows a steady drop in crime since 2004.

The problem of empty jail cells has even gotten to the point where, last September, the country imported 240 prisoners from Norway just to keep the facilities full.

Still, according to The Telegraaf's report, Justice Minister Ard van der Steur announced to parliament that the cost of maintaining sparsely-filled prisons was cost-prohibitive for the small country.

A number of factors underlie the Netherlands' ability to keep its crime rate so low, namely, relaxed drug laws, a focus on rehabilitation over punishment, and an electronic ankle monitoring system that allows people to re-enter the workforce.

A study published in 2008 found the ankle monitoring system reduced the recidivism rate by up to half compared to traditional incarceration. Instead of wasting away in a jail cell, eating up federal dollars, convicted criminals are given the opportunity to contribute to society.

These measures all add up to an unbelievably low incarceration rate: Although the Netherlands has a population of 17 million, only 11,600 people are locked up. That's a rate of 69 incarcerations per 100,000 people.

The US, meanwhile, has a rate of 716 per 100,000 — the highest in the world. It's marked largely by its lack of attention to social services and rehabilitation programs once prisoners finish their sentences. Without a safety net to give them any other options, many fall back into their old habits.

Seeing as how the Netherlands is literally importing prisoners to keep jails full, larger countries like the US could learn a thing or two from the Dutch model.

http://www.techinsider.io/dutch-prisons-are-closing-2016-3

This is going to happen in naija when Oga is back from USA
Re: Dutch Prisons Are Closing Because The Country Is So Safe by oluwasegun007(m): 11:06pm On Mar 30, 2016
That's very unusual. ..it only mean the law enforcement agencies in that country are not up and doing. ..

from a sociological point of view, the society is divided into several categories which includes those that will break the law due to the inability to achieve their goals or the insensitivity of the society or govt to their needs.
Re: Dutch Prisons Are Closing Because The Country Is So Safe by bedspread: 11:06pm On Mar 30, 2016
About to bawo? Nigerian Prisons have being filled up sine 1980.
dulux07:
Wow. I wish to live in holland.
Ours is about to start getting over filled up.
Re: Dutch Prisons Are Closing Because The Country Is So Safe by suyamasta(m): 11:08pm On Mar 30, 2016
Wooow! See better country!
Re: Dutch Prisons Are Closing Because The Country Is So Safe by Nobody: 11:08pm On Mar 30, 2016
ATERI:

I don`t know whether that has changed, but the private school system used to be very unpopular in The Netherlands. Everybody learns the same thing from nursery to secondary school. Countries that are good are not good for no reason.
America is not alone in this show of shame; their cousins in London imprison more people than any other countries in the EU
When we called them Apartheid society, it wasn`t an exaggeration. They are tough on crime rather than being tough on the causes of crime. The more unequal a society is, the higher its prison population. That is what democratic capitalism is all about.
democratic capitalism, words of the social scientists.
Re: Dutch Prisons Are Closing Because The Country Is So Safe by AmazingZeus(m): 11:11pm On Mar 30, 2016
Only Nigerian criminals sef will fill up their prison cell,Nigeria get many variety of criminals any one you need just name it shocked shocked
Re: Dutch Prisons Are Closing Because The Country Is So Safe by ideology(m): 11:12pm On Mar 30, 2016
Nice place to visit then cool
Re: Dutch Prisons Are Closing Because The Country Is So Safe by Gwekzy: 11:13pm On Mar 30, 2016
honestly all these were achieved because of the regulated drug law .. weed is good when well consumed. it is great .
Re: Dutch Prisons Are Closing Because The Country Is So Safe by Nobody: 11:13pm On Mar 30, 2016
I reason to what u are saying
romme2u:
i think providing prison service to other countries could be a good source of revenue to their government, keep their law enforcement officers in duty and give them the necessary experience to handle different types of criminals worldwide.

this can be big business instead of letting those facilities rot away.
Re: Dutch Prisons Are Closing Because The Country Is So Safe by sarutobie(m): 11:15pm On Mar 30, 2016
Norway has been shutting down their prisons for years now..there has not been a murder case for more than 7 seven years there.
Re: Dutch Prisons Are Closing Because The Country Is So Safe by LogoDWhiz(m): 11:16pm On Mar 30, 2016
Thhey can outsource prisoners from nigeria here..

Lucrative business..

Niigeria pays for their upkeep.
Re: Dutch Prisons Are Closing Because The Country Is So Safe by stonemasonn: 11:16pm On Mar 30, 2016
There is so much enjoyment in that country for a lifetime; booze, whores, marijuana readily accessible, why waste your energy on crime?

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Re: Dutch Prisons Are Closing Because The Country Is So Safe by Nobody: 11:18pm On Mar 30, 2016
Kai country when dey work
Re: Dutch Prisons Are Closing Because The Country Is So Safe by Nobody: 11:19pm On Mar 30, 2016
Do you know that prostitution and marijuana is legal in Netherlands??
Re: Dutch Prisons Are Closing Because The Country Is So Safe by nkemdi89(f): 11:22pm On Mar 30, 2016
A country where their economic and social structure is effective, whereby their punitive system is really serving the purpose of why it was created to serve the 3rs which are rehabilitation, reformation and reintegration. A country where the penal methods serves as a deterence to other deviants,that also believes in the application of ADR method, what will be the needs of unnecessary and undue incarceration, not to forget effective judicial system that operates within the armbit of rule of law couple with efficient law enforcement and regulatory bodies.

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Re: Dutch Prisons Are Closing Because The Country Is So Safe by PBundles(m): 11:22pm On Mar 30, 2016
And you had a joker on another thread telling us how heavenly the US was. I had to show him the light:

https://www.nairaland.com/3018151/anyaoku-backs-buhari-stance-naira/2#44260035

ATERI:

I don`t know whether that has changed, but the private school system used to be very unpopular in The Netherlands. Everybody learns the same thing from nursery to secondary school. Countries that are good are not good for no reason.
America is not alone in this show of shame; their cousins in London imprison more people than any other countries in the EU
When we called them Apartheid society, it wasn`t an exaggeration. They are tough on crime rather than being tough on the causes of crime. The more unequal a society is, the higher its prison population. That is what democratic capitalism is all about.

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Re: Dutch Prisons Are Closing Because The Country Is So Safe by jmichlins(m): 11:23pm On Mar 30, 2016
ogechieku:
they dont learn from others they only they like make den be oga on top others.
remember me? wow never i had talk to you again after you ignored me the other time

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