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Hague Penitentiary Institution

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Penitentiaire Inrichting Haaglanden, Dienst Justitiële Inrichtingen
Penitentiaire Inrichting Haaglanden, Dienst Justitiële Inrichtingen

The Hague Penitentiary Institution (Dutch: Penitentiaire Inrichting Haaglanden) is a Dutch prison that is part of the Judicial Institutions Department (Dienst Justitiële Inrichtingen, DJI) of the Ministry of Justice. It can accommodate more than 1,000 detainees and consists of two locations, at Zoetermeer and Scheveningen. The Zoetermeer location is for Systematic offenders and the Scheveningen location serves as a Penitentiary Psychiatric Center, the 'open design' Limited Secured Installation and Judicial Medical Center. A special independent unit in the Scheveningen location serves as a United Nations Detention Unit (UNDU) for international offenders where they remain in pre-trial detention under the responsibility of the United Nations like suspects of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and of the International Criminal Court (ICC).

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Hague Penitentiary Institution
Pompstationsweg, The Hague Scheveningen

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2597 JW The Hague, Scheveningen
South Holland, Netherlands
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