Bizarre (to my thinking) story here: Michelle Martin: Outrage as 'remorseless' ex-wife of child killer to be released from prison to spend the next ten years 'at prayer' in a convent | Daily Mail Online
What’s the staright dope?
In Belgium all convicts are grated early parole at one third of their sentence if it was their first offence, two third if they are a repeat offender, and a minimum of ten years for a life sentence, (sixteen if they are a repeat offender)
They have to show they have a place stay and have an occupation (preferably a paying Job)
Living in a convent would take care of that.
Yeah. It seems that the convent was just a place that the convict had proposed that they be released to - there isn’t an overriding program to place large numbers of ex-offenders as neophyte nuns and monks.
Btw, a criminal running away to a convent or monastery isn’t a new phenomenon - it is part of the plot of Tennyson’s Idylls of the King.
Let’s hope the convent doesn’t include a school.
“And the smallest one was Madeline.”