New approaches in the prison system: In a special ward of the Veldzicht Forensic Clinic in Zwolle, near the German-Dutch border, sex offenders are not treated in the strict sense, but their personality growth is to be promoted. The men belong to the hard core of 5 to 15 percent of offenders who, according to psychologists, cannot be reached by current therapeutic means. They all realize that they may never return to society.
18. September 2003