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The Dutch Prison System After the War
When the Nazis occupied the Netherlands in 1940, they turned many Dutch penitentiaries into prisons. Most of the Dutch elites who do not want to collaborate with German occupier with the Nazis ended up in prison. After the war, Dutch leaders once again called for a transformation of the nation's prisons. This time, criminal law reformers pushed for alternatives to incarceration.