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Inmates get vitamins from aggression
05-09-2015 10:04
Research has previously shown that prisoners who additional fatty acids, vitamins and minerals to make them exhibit less aggressive behavior.
Detainees in getting seven prisons in the Netherlands from next year administered nutritional supplements. Hope of the Ministry of Security and Justice to reduce the number of violent incidents.
Research has previously shown that prisoners who additional fatty acids, vitamins and minerals to make them exhibit less aggressive behavior.
,, We are the first country the step from laboratory to practice, '' said Ap Zaalberg of Scientific Research - and Documentation Centre (WODC) of the Ministry in the newspaper. He recently completed his doctoral research on this topic.
Abuse of prisoners is widespread in prisons. A quarter of the people in prisons has to deal with it. In a test of Zaalberg decreased the number of incidents with inmates who had extra supplements swallowed by 34 percent.
Justice will provide next year, inmates in five prisons and two juvenile correctional extra food. Then start Leiden researchers also an experiment to see if long-stay psychiatric patients are less aggressive through better nutrition.
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