Less inmates in prisons – Groninger Newspaper

In 2015 were 8 percent less adults in a prison or house of detention than in 2014. This decline applies to all age groups and herkomstgroeperingen and both men and women. The number of staff in the prison system took off rapidly. That indicates CBS.

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In 2015 were to 39.8 thousand adults under criminal detention. Between 2005 and 2015, in shrinking the number of inmates with more than 20 percent. This fits in with the trend of recorded crime and suspects, where even a few years ago, a fall takes place. The number of staff in prisons work is since 2005 also with 20 percent.

Proportion of young prisoners decreases
In 2015, almost 18 percent of the prison population from young people from 18 to 25 years, while ten years earlier was still nearly 22 percent. The percentage of 45 – to 65-year-olds has grown from 16 to almost 23 percent. Although the percentage of prisoners from 25 to 45 years old has shrunk, populated this group, still the majority of the prison cells. Nine in ten prisoners was in 2015 man, just as in previous years.

Six out of ten prisoners have a migrant background
Of the detainees in 2015, had more than 36 percent a Dutch background, 62 percent had a migration background. Of the remaining 2 percent, the background is unknown. This ratio is not changed. People with a Moroccan background shapes with almost 11 percent, the largest group of prisoners with a migration background, followed by people with a Surinamese and Antillean background.

the Condemned property crimes the largest group of detainees
Of the adults on 30 september 2015 were stuck, was 38 percent convicted of property crimes and nearly 32 percent for acts of violence and sexual crimes.