FO Pénitentiaire has just announced “ a confirmed case of a nurse from the 3rd division of the Fresnes prison center. A crisis meeting is being held at this very moment at this establishment, ”affirms the union organization, which also mentions the case of a doctor from the Poitiers health unit.
Several inmates at this facility were confined but were not diagnosed positive. " In remand centers, it will be all the more difficult to manage the epidemic if it takes place as the establishments are dilapidated, " underlines Emmanuel Baudin, boss of FO Pénitentiaire. At this stage, the management of the prison administration has chosen to leave the maximum of autonomy to the heads of establishments to manage the situation at local level.
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