The government will present in the autumn a plan “specific, concrete, precise” and especially “funded” for the prison estate, Manuel Valls on Monday pledged during a visit to the prison in Nimes, which holds the french record of overcrowding. The “pause” summer of the Government hardly started, the Prime Minister and the Minister of Justice Jean-Jacques Urvoas spent over two hours at the prison in Nimes, Manuel Valls under its “very critical” situation. It hosts currently 406 prisoners, men and women, for a theoretical capacity of 192 seats, according to its director Luc Joly.
On July 1, the number of inmates in French prisons has reached a new record with 69,375 prisoners for 58,311 places. But despite high expectations, the prime minister refrained from any final announcement, hammering that “the government is.” “The government is, especially since Jean-Jacques Urvoas is the Minister of Justice,” he said, in an allusion barely hidden his notorious hostility to the former Justice Minister Christiane Taubira.
“the tracks will be presented in the fall”
Manuel Valls said that “discussions are underway that will cope with the growing prison population medium term “. “The tracks will be presented in the autumn, with a specific plan, concrete, specific, funded – because in the past there have been so many ads but never funded – on the prison estate”
. Jean-Jacques Urvoas recalled his side he was to present to Parliament in September a report on “encellulement individual.” “The government’s priority is obviously solitary confinement because today it is a security imperative,” he said, as the wave of attacks in France raises the acutely issue of radicalization in prison.
“We are fighting (…) with determination against radicalization in prison,” assured Manuel Valls. Citing ongoing renovation work in dilapidated facilities such as Health in Paris, and the opening of new facilities in Beauvais or Valencia, he said that “there is still much work to do.” “We created more than 1,100 jobs in the prison administration,” also claimed the Prime Minister announced that he would visit this fall, with the Minister of Justice, in Agen, at the National School of prison administration.
“welcome the commitment of personal”
the first objective of his visit to Nîmes, said Manuel Valls, was “to greet the personal commitment, men and women working in the prison service, “he stressed the” difficult job and profoundly human. ” The prison in Nimes, he sanctioned a year ago by the Council of State, “focuses the difficulties female overcrowding, increasing the number of mattresses on the floor,” he noted, however, refusing any specific announcement on this property.
Meanwhile the Comptroller General of places of deprivation of liberty (CGLPL) warned Monday against the temptation to create additional places to solve the problem of prison overcrowding. “History has shown that more were built spaces, the more they were satisfied,” said Adeline Hazan, “not agree” with the right claiming between 10 000 and 20 000 additional prison places. “Of course we have a number of prison places” extra, she agreed. “When Mrs Taubira had spoken of a program of 6,000 new places in 2014, I think it was sufficient and create more will not solve the situation. “Preferring the” alternatives to detention “, she advocated that” prison is truly, as the law says, the last resort. “
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