Gérald Darmanin announced on Monday that he had ordered the “fun activities” in prison on Monday after the lively controversy of the last days.
On the move this Monday, February 17, at the Penitentiary Center of Condé-sur-Sarthe (Orne), Gérald Darmanin said that he had ordered the cessation of all the “playful activities” in prison which do not focus on the French language or on the French language nor on sport. A decision that occurs that on Friday, February 14, the regional daily The dispatch revealed that twenty detainees from the Seysses prison, south of Toulouse, had benefited from facial care offered by a Toulouse school.
A small session that occurred a week after a class of “country dance”, arousing the ire of certain penitentiary supervisors. “It became Club Med, detention,” said one of them with daily life. The FO Justice union had mounted in the niche denounced the organization of such activities in a press release. “It is out of the question to have fun activities which shock all our fellow citizens and who shocked me deeply when I learned that this free activity, which had been proposed locally, had been accepted,” reacted this Monday on Monday Keeper of the Seals, whose The Parisian echoes.
Activities that “relearn people to relive normally”
“I asked the director of the prison administration […] that an instruction is given to all the directors of penitentiary centers, of all the prisons, so that we only limit ourselves to academic support and to the French language, to activity around work and to sports activity Inside the prison, “continued Gérald Darmnin. Defending the total judgment of these activities, the Minister of Justice assured that he was effective on Monday.
A choice that the general control of the places of deprivation of freedom, Dominique Simonnot, however said regretted. Scheduled by law, “these playful activities are not simply fun, they relearn people to relive normally,” she said to AFP of which The Parisian relay the remarks. For her, the real problem is prison overcrowding. This case also occurs two and a half years after a similar controversy. At the time, it was a karting test at Fresnes prison, in Val-de-Marne, was at the heart of the debates.