Rhône: investigation for “violence” after a video of guards hitting a detainee. The two agents were removed from the service, placed on unjustified absence.
A new suspicion of blunders in this prison where a “climate of violence and silence” reigns. In July 2022, a guard at the Villefranche penitentiary center was sentenced to 12 months in prison and suspended for two years for having assaulted an inmate, recalls the International Observatory of Prisons (OIP)