An annoying band around your leg, constant stress about charging and justice on the phone all the time. Ex-detainees experience wearing an ankle bracelet as a punishment, while formally it is not. Reporter Ingmar Vriesema investigated why both detainees and politicians structurally underestimate the effect of the ankle bracelet.
Read the article: Living with an ankle bracelet, what does that look like? Three ex-detainees speak candidly: ‘That anklet will get stuck between your ears’
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- Guest:
- Ingmar Vriesema
- Presentation:
- Egbert Kalse
- Editorial:
- Ruben Pest, Lotteke Boogert, Suzan Yücel
- Edit:
- Bass van Win
- Photo:
- Merlin Doomernik