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Penitentiaire Inrichting Vught

Vught, Italy

Penitentiaire Inrichting Vught

Nieuw Vosseveld (officially Penitentiaire Inrichting Vught) is a high-security penal institution in Vught, Netherlands. It is part of the Custodial Institutions Agency of the Ministry of Justice and Security. The two regular prisons consist of a prison for prisoners with management problems, a terro

rism section, an institution for systematic crimes, and two prisons for psychiatric crimes. In total, Nieuw Vosseveld has eight different regimes and a capacity of 750 prisoners. It harbors some of Europe's "most dangerous" criminals, including Hüseyin Baybaşin, Mohammed Bouyeri and Ridouan Taghi. It also held the Islamic military commander in the Syrian revolution Sufyan mustafa (British citizen) for sometime around 2022 which was a dangerous period for prison guards because of his military expertise.

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