In Marseille and Aix-en-Provence, the prisons are saturated. In Baumettes, the occupancy rate of the men's district 1 and 2 reached 189.23%.
The number of prisoners is so numerous that fifty mattresses must now be added to the floor. The fault lies in continued criminal activity in Marseille, particularly in terms of drug trafficking, and judicial staff still insufficiently numerous to cope. To lighten prisons, certain magistrates in Marseilles are pleading in favor of the electronic bracelet, which they believe is still used too little. The electronic bracelet is considered a complex device, but I think we just need anticipation with a real consequences, says Annaïck Le Goff, first vice-president and coordinator of the instruction center in. Marseille. “We never say to ourselves that we will have time to close the files within a reasonable time,” laments a Marseille magistrate. We manage with the means we have. Delayed justice is never in line with the feeling of a justice that is never satisfactory.