‘Like mice in a cage’: Inside Europe’s prison overcrowding crisis
In some of Europe’s richest countries, including Belgium, overcrowding is driving a severe deterioration of conditions., Brussels, Belgium – Bilal knows life behind bars. Over the past 10 years, the 34-year-old has served a sentence in five prisons across Belgium. He most vividly recalls conditions in Mons, a 19th-century prisonContinue Reading












