Life behind bars gets new twist in empty Dutch prisons

644 views · Published 10 July 2017 · 1:55 · Indexed 14 November 2026

Channel: Arab News · 2017 · News & Politics

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Falling crime rates in the Netherlands, as well as changing ideas about punishment methods, have left many of the country's prisons empty. Now, more than two dozen of them have been repurposed, with some used as housing and others accommodating start-up businesses and even life-sized escape games. (AFP Video)

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