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A risk of shortage hangs over electronic bracelets

2021-03-10T20:10:47.117Z


Judges are increasingly using it in the context of sentencing. But the logistics are struggling to keep up.


It is never easy to anticipate the decision of a magistrate.

Even less his crazes.

Thus, since the beginning of the year, the bracelet under electronic surveillance has been the subject of unprecedented success.

So much so that some areas came close to a shortage in mid-February.

Starting with Marseille and Aix-en-Provence.

“The machine got carried away

,

underlines Frédéric Belhabib, CFDT delegate for the south-east of France.

“We hardly put on a bracelet in 2020. Currently it can go up to five to six per day and Marseille can go up to fifteen.

It is above all the releases to two-thirds of sentence and

the adjustments of sentence

of less than one year which boost the installation of bracelet "

, underlines the trade unionist.

Year in and year out, these investments hitherto oscillated between 10,000 and 11,000.

“But since the beginning of the year, we have had an increase of 2,500 measures compared to our usual estimates

,

underlines this manager of the prison administration.

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Source: lefigaro

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