More than 77,200 inmates, for 61,359 operational places in France. The plan to build 15,000 cells, far from being achieved, is already obsolete.
Situation will be even more critical in the coming weeks and months. “It’s a dramatic and totally unconscious situation,” says FO Direction's Sébastien Nicolas. ‘For the Paris area, this is sadly normal. But now, this overpopulation is also stratospheric,’ he adds.