A 150-year-old Dutch jail was transformed into this luxury hotel

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Het Arresthuis

The Netherlands has an odd problem on its hands: The country is so safe, it doesn't need all of its prisons anymore.

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Within the last decade, roughly 25 have closed down or are expected to close in the coming years.

One of those is the Het Arresthuis hotel, which opened as a jail in 1863 and closed in 2007, only to reopen a few years later. A total of 105 cells were converted into 40 luxury rooms, and the courtyard is now a fine-dining terrace.

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