While many American prisons are trying to navigate overcrowding, prisons in the Netherlands are so empty, people are coming up with creative new plans for the buildings. Over the past 10 years, the ...

Falling crime rates over the last decade, as well as changing ideas about punishing criminals, have robbed this penitentiary of its original purpose, and its gates clanged shut in 2014. Built in 1886, ...

AS THE world struggles with overcrowded prisons, one country is shutting them down. Here’s what we could learn. There is learning, course work and open communication with support networks is strongly ...