“The prison is a paradise for users”: why it is easier to get drugs in Antwerp prison than outside

“One day thirty tennis balls full of drugs were thrown over the wall in ten minutes. Boom Boom Boom. It was a party for everyone.” Two ex-convicts testify about how drugs are ubiquitous in Antwerp prison and that will not change after the extra measures taken by Minister of Justice Vincent Van Quickenborne (Open Vld). But how exactly does this smuggling system work? “You’ll never believe how those drugs get in there.”

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