Humane Corrections: A New Approach for Food in Prison

ICPA2023 Presentation by Wolter van der Vlist, Marianne Vos and An-Sofie Vanhouche (ICPA2023-PID211)

Authors

Wolter van der Vlist

Sr. Policy Advisor on Procurement, Netherlands - Dutch Custodial Institutions Agency, Netherlands

Drs. Wolter van der Vlist, policy advisor on procurement, Dutch Custodial Institution Agency
Wolter works 10 years in the Dutch prison system and is with his team responsible for procurement policy called procurement with impact. To engage suppliers with the special purpose of the organisation is our main focus. Last three years he worked on a new contract for food in prison.

Marianne Vos

Prison Director, Dutch Custodial Institution Agency, Netherlands

Drs. Marianne Vos, prison director, PI Heerhugowaard, Dutch Custodial Institution Agency. Marianne works for 28 years in the Dutch prison system at different locations. She started her career at the headquarter in Den Haag. Actually she is director at the Prison in Heerhugowaard with 340 prisoners from which most serve long or life sentences.

An-Sofie Vanhouche

Professor, VUB, Belgium

An-Sofie Vanhouche holds a PhD in Criminology and works as assistant professor in the Criminology Department. She obtained her Master's degree in 2011 with a thesis entitled: “Innocently imprisoned: The Consequences for People who are Acquitted after Being Remanded in Custody”. In 2017, she successfully defended her PhD, 'Prison Cuisines in Europe. A Comparative Study of Prison Food Systems in Belgium, Tilburg and Denmark', jointly supervised at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and the University of Southern Denmark. An-Sofie currently teaches several courses as assistant professor on penology and comparative criminology. Her main research interest lies in the lived experience of imprisonment, participatory research, prison foodways, prison education, and comparative penology.

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