During a walk through the municipal green: a group of men were pruning. We started talking and at the beginning of the conversation I said that working outside was certainly not a punishment now, referring to the mild and sunny weather.

I saw some looks back and forth and only then did I read on the vest of one of the supervisors: Rotterdam Probation Service.

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