Almost 2,000 beds too little: Annelies Verlinden wants to tackle the problem of overcrowded prisons. “Only 2028 is too late for solutions”

Thousands of criminals who remain free because there is no place in prison, more than 200 prisoners who sleep on the ground every night and guards who fall out under the workload: the Belgian prisons moan under the heavy overpopulation. That is why Minister of Justice Annelies Verlinden (CD&V) is now establishing a specialized committee to come up with structural solutions … by the summer of 2028.

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