Tag: Boschpoort Prison

Life behind bars gets new twist in empty Dutch prisons

  by Sophie MIGNON Agence France-Presse   BREDA, Netherlands (AFP) – Voices echo around the magnificent, luminous dome of Breda prison, breaking the silence of the 130-year-old building, now empty of inmates like dozens of others in The Netherlands. Falling crime rates over the last decade, as well as changing ideas about punishing criminals have robbed this penitentiary of its original purpose, and its gates clanged shut in 2014. Built in 1886, it was possible […]