[Article] 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.
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A deafening silence… Breda prison is empty of inmates, like so many others in the Netherlands.Crime is in freefall around the country.Over the last 10 years, the number of prisoners dropped 20 percent -- forcing the closure of 27 institutions.Anneloes van Boxtel, Dutch Interior Ministry spokesperson:"There...
