Answers Himpe receives from the governor show that for the time being there is no overcrowding in the detention house in Kortrijk and the penitentiary agricultural center in Ruiselede. In Bruges, as it turns out:
“In the prison of Bruges there was a temporary expansion and cells for one detainee were converted into cells for two people. However, there are still several cells where three prisoners stay, so someone has to sleep on the floor.”