Prison lessons from the Netherlands | Letters

Dave Beakhust points out that prison is not the only way to punish offenders. Plus letters from Matthew Ryder and Anne Keat Your report (UK could rent space in foreign jails to ease shortage of cells, 3 October) did not raise the question of why the Netherlands, or any country, should have prison space to spare. A whole empty prison in the Netherlands was able to be brought back into use for Norwegian prisoners, for example.From 2005 to 2022, the numbers imprisoned in the Netherlands fell from 5