Here in the U.S. our "leaders" and their corporate, legal and union puppet masters design policy to extract/provoke the greatest number of criminals and prisoners possible.
--- In [email protected], bruce majors <bruce.maj...@...> wrote: > > Posted by Cory > Doctorow<http://dynamic.boingboing.net/cgi-bin/mt/mt-cp.cgi?__mode=view&blog_id=1&id=1>, > May 27, 2009 10:13 PM | > permalink<http://www.boingboing.net/2009/05/27/netherlands-runs-out.html> > The Netherlands (where most drugs are cannabis is legal) has so few > criminals that it is now faced with the choice of shutting down its prisons > and laying off the staff, or importing criminals from other countries like > Belgium on a contract basis: > > During the 1990s the Netherlands faced a shortage of prison cells, but a > decline in crime has since led to overcapacity in the prison system. The > country now has capacity for 14,000 prisoners but only 12,000 detainees. > > Deputy justice minister Nebahat Albayrak announced on Tuesday that eight > prisons will be closed, resulting in the loss of 1,200 jobs. Natural > redundancy and other measures should prevent any forced lay-offs, the > minister said. > > Netherlands to close prisons for lack of > criminals<http://www.nrc.nl/international/article2246821.ece/Netherlands_to_close_prisons_for_lack_of_criminals>( > *via Futurismic <http://futurismic.com/>*) > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] >
