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Record W4385497290 · doi:10.18192/jpp.v32i2.6846

Belgian Prison Policy: Half a Century of Broken Promises

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Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Prisoners on Prisons · 2023
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicEuropean Criminal Justice and Data Protection
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPrisonPolitical scienceCriminologyLawPublic administrationSociology

Abstract

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Almost half a century ago, in 1973, I was locked up for a month in the prison of the Begijnenstraat in Antwerp.I was 20 years old when I got to know for the fi rst time about the interior of a police station, then a cell in the basement of the Antwerp courthouse, followed by a prison cell, the one in Begijnenstraat, 1 and fi nally with a courtroom.As a young activist, I had joined about 20 other people from Alle Macht aan de Arbeiders (AMADA, All Power to the Workers), a Maoist organization, in the dockers' strike of April-May-June 1973 in Antwerp and Ghent, a so-called wildcat strike -that is to say, a strike not recognized by the trade unions.It was the period "after May 68".AMADA was looking for a candidate to be its spokesperson in this strike and that is how I became the man with the megaphone.This would lead to my arrest and imprisonment, after a violent clash between police, strikers and activists on May 14, 1973. 2 The incident took place during a demonstration in which women dockworkers were beaten by the police armed with truncheons, to prevent them from going to the building of the ABVV (Flemish FGTB) union offi ces to claim strike pay.Some of the demonstrators, noticing that a police car from the specialist surveillance unit -the Brigade de Surveillance et de Recherche (BSR) (Surveillance & Research Brigade) -was tailing the demonstration, broke off .The violence they had just seen infl icted by truncheon-wielding offi cers on the mothers and sisters of the strikers had provoked anger and a culprit was needed.A few hours later, after the gendarmerie hermetically sealed the dockers' recruitment offi ce, the public prosecutor issued an arrest warrant in my name.But a dock worker had hidden me under a blanket in the back seat of his car and I was able to escape, although not for long.On May 15, I was sent to prison.One month later, on the day the strike ended, I was released. MEMORIES OF THE BEGIJNENSTRAATShort as my prison stay was -many of

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.707
Threshold uncertainty score0.550

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.044
GPT teacher head0.351
Teacher spread0.306 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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