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According to the British Institute for Criminal Policy Research, the number of women prisoners around the world has exceeded the 700,000 mark for the first time, or an increase of about 50%
Federal justice minister Koen Geens is said to be “furious” at an action taken by the security detail at the Justice Palace in Brussels last week, when the officers suddenly stopped work in
In the first eight months of this year, there has not been a single successful escape from a Belgian prison. The last escape in the country was 18 months ago.
A Tournai resident, Thomas Couvreur, 29 has been sentenced to life in prisonfor the 2011 murder of his neighbour Caroline Vyncke (pictured).
Federal justice minister Koen Geens has decided to set up isolation wings in two Belgian prisons to separate inmates with extremist views from the general prison population, he told De Morgen
For two years, the European art and advocacy programme Parol! has given prison inmates across the continent an opportunity to nurture their inner artists.
Belgium’s prisons are among the most overcrowded in all of Europe, according to a report by the Council of Europe. The problem is only greater in Italy, Hungary and Cyprus, reports VTM News.
Belgian justice minister Koen Geens has announced new measures aimed at preventing jailed extremists from converting other prisoners to their cause.
Prisoner Frank Van den Bleeken, who was due to undergo euthanasia on Sunday after serving 30 years in prison for rape and murder, will instead be transferred to a new psychiatric treatment centre
