Youth detention

(On a van and a uniform can be read: Custodial Institutions Agency. Someone places a finger on a scanner. A door and a hatch are opened. Someone closes a door and locks it. Onscreen title: This is DJI youth detention. Voice-over:)

The Netherlands has been locking up people as a form of punishment
for quite some time.
The Custodial Institutions Agency, or simply DJI,
carries out this task on behalf of the Ministry of Justice and Security.
The punishments and measures handed down by the judge
are enforced by well-trained and motivated personnel.
This makes DJI a specialist in detention.
A large organisation that employs more than 14,000 people.

(People walk through a hall and a hallway.)

DJI contributes to the safety of every one of us,
by enforcing punishments and measures handed down by the judge.
This can happen within the walls of the correctional institution,
but also outside of one.
Every person detained at DJI is called a detainee.
DJI prepares detainees for their return to society.
This is done to prevent them from reverting to criminal behaviour.
We call this: reducing recidivism.

(An animation appears.)

The correctional institutions hand out 80,000 sandwiches per day.
Approximately 11 million kilometres are travelled per year
for transport and support.
And an average cell measures 5 x 2 x 2.5 metres.
Linen must be washed for more than 11,000 beds.
An adult detainee spends an average of 3.5 months behind bars.

(The animation disappears. DJI staff walk past a counter.)

There are different types of detainees.
Adult detainees, juveniles, patients and foreign nationals.
The division Forensic care
and correctional institutions for juvenile offenders
is responsible for all juveniles that are held by DJI.

(A door closes A woman opens a detention van.)

Juveniles who have committed a criminal offence or are suspected thereof,
are held in a correctional institution for juvenile offenders.

(A youth steps out.)

In the Netherlands, approximately 2,200 juveniles
are held in such institutions each year.
Most of them are between sixteen and twenty-one years old.
All correctional institutions for juvenile offenders
work with the same basic methodology: U-turn.
With this methodology it all revolves around
learning skills and individual responsibility.

(Young men are talking. Later they are sitting next to each other. Jan:)

(A youth plays billiards. Other youths are in a room.)

Juveniles follow mandatory education during their detention term,
and treatment is an important part.
Each juvenile follows a personal future-oriented trajectory
which aims to ensure that he no longer shows criminal behaviour.

(A man walks over to a seated man and woman.)

The role of parents is also important.
They are invited for regular talks in the juvenile correctional institution,
and are present at parents evenings or at graduation ceremonies.
By maintaining this working method,
DJI strives to ensure that people don't take up crime again once released.

(A man walks down a hallway past locked cell doors. Onscreen text: DJI. Where freedom ends and where it can begin again.)

(The Dutch coat of arms with next to it: Custodial Institutions agency. Ministry of Justice and Security. The image becomes blue with white. Onscreen text: All rights reserved. The production of copies and/or the distribution of (parts of) this film is strictly prohibited is strictly prohibited. None of the individuals portrayed in this film is actually being detained.)

(A special thank you to the DJI employees. This a a publication of the Custodial Institutions Agency DJI Corporate Communication department. For more information visit www.dji.nl. Copyright 2019.)