By the tip of the week, twenty detainees from Antwerp’s Begijnenstraat can be transferred to different prisons. The variety of prisoners has elevated to 650 in the previous few days. With these actions, the jail system desires to forestall flooring sleepers within the Begijnenstraat.
After a number of strikes happened within the Antwerp jail on Begijnenstraat previously months to protest in opposition to persistent overcrowding and the so-called flooring sleepers, measures at the moment are being introduced to take care of this . Actually there’s solely room for 439 detainees within the Antwerp jail, a determine that may by no means be reached.
There at the moment are 650 prisoners within the jail, within the males’s part solely, and that’s an excessive amount of. To satisfy this want, the jail system has organized for twenty prisoners to be transferred to different prisons. Most of them have been transferred to Dendermonde jail.
Each the administration and the unions assume it’s a good factor. They now hope that there won’t be a lot of new prisoners, as a result of at the start of this week eighteen prisoners have been introduced in in a single night.
2024-06-06 17:31:15
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