CELLS FOR REFUGEES

With crime declining in the Netherlands, the country was looking at new ways to fill its prisons and amid the huge flow of refugees and migrants into Europe back in 2017, several Dutch prisons had been temporarily pressed into service as asylum-seeker centers.

“Most people think that once people arrive, the story’s over. But to me, that’s just when the story starts,” Muhammed Muheisen.

 

 

19-year-old Afghan refugee Shazia Lutfi peeks through the door of her room at the former prison of De Koepel in Haarlem, Netherlands, May 2016.

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