Annelies Verlinden about the crowded prisons: “A work sentence is sometimes more effective than a prison sentence”

Crowded cells, the Leuven rape case, a dragging drug war and since this week also protesting magistrates. Annelies Verlinden (CD&V) immediately had a fierce start as a Justice Minister. In the fight against impunity and the overcrowded prisons, she does not shy away from controversial ideas and criticism. “Today’s impunity is due to decisions from my predecessor.”

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