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The entrance to the Vught Penitentiary Institution, including the ultra-secure EBI prison ward. Feb. 2024
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Fire in Vught prison forces evacuation of over 160 inmates overnight
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The Ministry of Security and Justice and the Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations located on Turfmarkt in The Hague. 12 October 2017.
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Almere TBS clinic director suspended amid ongoing misconduct
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Police arrest fugitive Nils M., who stole paintings by Vincent van Gogh and Frans Hals in 2020, in Amsterdam, 10 March 2026. The man escaped custody in January 2026
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Fugitive art thief who stole Van Gogh, Frans Hals paintings caught after January escape
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Prisoner's hands on bars.
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Thousands of criminal sentences delayed as prison overcrowding reaches critical level
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Man in prison
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Dutch prison system strained by hundreds of costly foreign detainees at Ter Apel
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File photo of the penitentiary on Copernicusstraat in Heerhugowaard, Noord-Holland
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Three prison workers targeted in four explosive attacks last month