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Thirty thousand people spent time in detention in the Netherlands in 2023, around the same number as the previous year.

In 2021, the number of people held in detention rose on the previous year. However, it declined when observed a longer period. This is evident from new figures released by Statistics Netherlands...

As of 30 September 2019, there were 10 thousand detainees in Dutch prisons, 400 more than in 2018 and 1,100 more than in 2016.