Dutch prison becomes a luxury hotel

A Dutch prison has been transformed into a luxury hotel.

The 105 cells at the Het Arresthuis jail - which used be one of the Netherlands' most notorious penitentiaries - have been fitted with air conditioning, a flat screen TV and free Wi-Fi in all of its 40 rooms, the Daily Mail newspaper reports.

The jail first opened in 1862 but it was abandoned for a number of recent years and reopened in 2002 before closing just five years later to enable construction to begin.

But it's not the first prison to have been turned into a hotel after the The Jailhotel Lowengraben in Lucerne in Switzerland was also converted into one in 1998.