Structural measures for capacity-problems in the Netherlands

CRS2025 Presentation by Maaike de Boois & Loes Schoenmaker (CRS2025-PID066)

Authors

Loes Schoenmaker

Program Manager, Department of Justice and Safety

Loes Schoenmaker is program manager at the Ministry of Justice and Security. She is leading the strategic program to ensure the prison capacity on the long term. Loes has spent her entire career of more than 20 years in forensic care and the prison service in the Netherlands. She has lead several strategic programs within Custodial Institutions Agency (Dienst Justitiële Inrichtingen-DJI).
In her current role she addresses prison capacity from a broader perspective; that of the entire criminal chain. Working on complex problems with other organizations characterizes the way Loes likes to work. Loes has a MSc in Mental health sciences.

Dr Maaike de Boois

Advisor, Department of Justice and Safety

Dr. Maaike de Boois has a PhD in Sociology in the field of discipline formation. She delves into disciplines and professional fields that deal with professional interventions in the lives of adults, in custodial and non-custodial contexts, and in voluntary and mandated (legal) contexts.
Maaike has currently been seconded from the Dutch probation services to the Ministry of Justice and Security in the Netherlands. Together with Loes Schoenmaker, she has been assigned to develop scientifically based policy for structural measures to manage capacity within the Dutch prison and correctional system in the coming decade. The aim of these measures is to be able to adequately execute imposed sentences in the long term. It is a broad issue in which the entire criminal justice chain plays a role: from the imposition of appropriate sentences, timely execution of sentences, to the prevention of recidivism and working on resocialization and belonging.
In 2024 Maaike was part of organizing the 6th world Congress on Probation and Parole. In her spare time, Maaike is a member of the supervisory committee of the prison in Roermond (The Netherlands).
Photo credits: Diana Hoilu Fradique

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