The comptroller general of prisons recommends suspend incarcerations in Bois-d’Arcy, a remand center near Paris. This recommendation is rare. The remand center has far too many prisoners than it has places. Their safety and that of staff is not guaranteed, according to the controller.
The prison has 860 inmates for 530 places, an untenable situation. “ The controller general of the places of creation of freedom, recall that the detainees have less than three square meters per personexplains Mathieu Quinquis, of the International Observatory of Prisons. This leads to a multitude of violations of their rights for those who are detained. and all the greater risks of tension between prisoners and staff.
“ Today, everyone must realize the seriousness and the danger of this situation.warns Mathieu Quinquis. It is the magistrates who decide on incarceration and it is they who today decide in conscience to place detainees in this situation by exposing them, in fact, to inhuman and degrading treatment. »
Towards an appeal
The Department of Justice speaks of a worrying situation. ” This is clearly too passive an answer and does not offer any perspective. “. The recommendation is not binding, so: the International Prisons Observatory is working with other organizations on an appeal against this establishment “.
This summary appeal before the administrative justice should be done in the coming weeks. 73,000 detainees are currently incarcerated in French prisons in November 2022, a record.
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