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Penitentiaire Inrichting Vught

Vught, Netherlands

Penitentiaire Inrichting Vught
Penitentiaire Inrichting Vught. Photo via Wikimedia Commons.

Nieuw Vosseveld (officially Penitentiaire Inrichting Vught) is a high-security penal institution in Vught, Netherlands. It is part of the Custodial Institutions Agency of the Ministry of Justice and Security. The two regular prisons consist of a prison for prisoners with management problems, a terrorism section, an institution for systematic crimes, and two prisons for psychiatric crimes. In total, Nieuw Vosseveld has eight different regimes and a capacity of 750 prisoners. It harbors some of Europe's "most dangerous" criminals, including Hüseyin Baybaşin, Mohammed Bouyeri and Ridouan Taghi.

Prison data from Wikidata (CC0). Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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