Productions
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21 September 2009
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TF1 News
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The Dutch jail system |
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Because of huge overpopulation and the rise of the number of suicides in French jails, a journalist from TF1 news comes to the Netherlands and to Belgium to see how the jails are looking and how they are managed. The situation in Dutch jails is very difference from France. Inmates have their own cell including toilet and television, most of the jails are new and well maintained. There are loads of activities and new experiments are preparing the inmates for their life after jail. Many inmates do voluntary work like maintaining parks and some inmates learn crafts like plasterer and painter. Some of the inmates even already have a job when they are released out of their cell. Last but not least the Dutch jails do not suffer from heavy overpopulation like in France. The Dutch even have to close jails because there are too many empty cells. The Belgian state asked the Dutch if it is possible to stick some of the Belgian inmates into Dutch cells to fight overpopulation in Belgium.
Activities: research and set-up, planning filming day, accompany filming, interviews and translations.