Bonaire Criminal Law Stalled Due to Cell Shortage

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The cell shortage on Bonaire is having such a significant impact on the criminal justice system that suspects are being released, sentences are being held for years, and foreign convicts are being deported to their countries of origin without supervision. This is what outgoing State Secretary Struycken of Legal Protection wrote in a letter to the House of Representatives. He called the situation in the prison on Bonaire "very worrying" and ackno…

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Bonaire has experienced an acute shortage of prison cells due to the rapid increase in inmate numbers on the island. Due to the lack of space, the Public Prosecution Service on the Caribbean island has sometimes decided not to detain suspects – even though it deemed it necessary – or to suspend their pretrial detention. The Public Prosecution Service also sends foreign suspects or passengers on board drug shipments at sea with a summons and depo…