This is one of the government’s priority issues. The arrest took up most of the “justice” section of Prime Minister Michel Barnier’s general policy statement on Tuesday 1Ahem October, with the promise, among other things, of “No more prison places”. Already on September 24, the new Minister of Justice, Didier Migaud, had chosen the Santé prison, in the heart of Paris, for his first trip. In fact, the situation in prisons is more tense than ever: on 1Ahem In September, prison density broke a new record, with nearly 79,000 inmates for 62,000 operational places, representing a global occupancy rate of 127.3%. There are also 3,600 mattresses on the floor. In seventeen establishments the prison density equals or exceeds 200%.
As is often the case when it comes to analyzing the prison situation, everything is a system. In addition to the issue of dignity and human rights, prison overcrowding harms the meaning of the sentence handed down and its effectiveness. In overcrowded establishments, life in prison becomes unsustainable, hygiene deteriorates, various activities, whether work or teaching, are almost impossible to carry out… So many obstacles to future reintegration. And this especially encourages the increase in violence.
Since this summer, attacks on supervisors have increased. In Perpignan in late July, a hostage attempt was narrowly averted after an inmate brandished a razor blade at a guard’s neck; in Béziers (Hérault), at the beginning of August, another guard was ambushed in a cell and brutally beaten until he fell to the ground; in Belfort, in mid-August, another was violently thrown against a wall after cannabis was seized in front of a visiting room; Tuesday 1Ahem In October, in Bois-d’Arcy (Yvelines), a bottle of shower gel served as a projectile and opened the forehead of a supervisor…
“There are 125 mattresses on the floor”
On September 26, around 11 p.m., a prison officer was beaten at his home in Montreuil (Seine-Saint-Denis). Three armed individuals broke into the home of this agent who worked at the Santé prison and kicked him, as demonstrated by a short video that the world He was able to consult. The attackers left the scene uttering threats related to the victim’s professional activity. An investigation was opened for violence and threats with weapons against a person holding public authority.
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