TBS Clinic De Rooyse Wissel in the News: Cocaine, weapons, missing patients, dead patients – three in three days – heroine, hostage situations and sex with the staff. And that’s only after reading a few articles from this seemingly infiniteGoogle listing.

Reading a bit longer and, again, the MU Forensic Psychology Department pops up. There’s a flow of money from De Rooyse Wissel to Maastricht University, in exchange for research results that should lead to faster resocialization of patients.

At the same time, MU forensic psychologists have a job on the side as expert witness Pro Justitia, which, in theory, means they submit objective reports about suspects at the request of the DA or the Judge. In practice, they help sending away considerable numbers of people, you guessed it, to TBS clinics.

Turns out that Dr. Otgaar c.s. assess mental state not only regarding violent crime, for which TBS originally was intended. Just a few weeks ago, a man from the Maastricht area was convicted to two years clinic for not paying the bill in a few restaurants.

In 2012 the EU Human Rights Court ruled that the Netherlands immediatly release a couple of hundred petty crime offenders from TBS clinics. The Dutch Supreme Court 'overruled' the verdict. Non-existent in legal terms, but quite a creative solution if you’re unable to comply. Problem with those numbers. The discrepancies between what goes in and what comes out are becoming more obvious.

NRC journalists discovered that 38 citizens, without a warrant from the Judge, went in through the back door. Locked up for undefined amounts of time. If they leave alive at all. The Justice Department responded: these people are ”potential offenders of the law”.