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A new prison with 700 places planned for Nîmes in 2027

2021-04-29T21:17:05.696Z


A new prison with 700 places should be built on a wasteland located between the municipalities of Nîmes, Milhaud and Générac (Gard) while the current Nîmes prison has been breaking prison overcrowding records for years with more than 190% of 'occupation. Read also: The slow growth of prison spaces " This large-scale public facility that will be the prison will not deteriorate the economic viabil


A new prison with 700 places should be built on a wasteland located between the municipalities of Nîmes, Milhaud and Générac (Gard) while the current Nîmes prison has been breaking prison overcrowding records for years with more than 190% of 'occupation.

Read also: The slow growth of prison spaces

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This large-scale public facility that will be the prison will not deteriorate the economic viability of the area, but will, on the contrary, boost it!"

“, Assured Franck Proust, president of Nîmes Métropole on Tuesday, presenting on the site the prison project coupled with the development of the 22nd zone of economic activity in the Nîmes agglomeration.

The opportunity to have the remand center on the Ocvia platform will give a new meaning to this territory and an attractiveness that generates jobs,

” added Frédéric Touzellier, first president of Nîmes Métropole and mayor of Générac. Previously agricultural, the site served as a base for the company that built the Nîmes-Montpellier rail bypass between 2015 and 2019. Currently in a wasteland, this 71 ha area is located at the crossroads of this Nîmes rail bypass. -Montpellier and the Nîmes-Le Grau du Roi railway line. 150 million euros of works are planned for a site which should generate 300 to 350 jobs.

The location of the future new Gard prison has been a subject of controversy in recent years.

The previous Keeper of the Seals Nicole Belloubet seemed to have ruled in favor of the second city of the department, Alès, which had sparked an outcry in Nîmes, the main city of the department and seat of the Court of Appeal and the most judicial tribunal. important.

Opponents of the Alesian project highlighted in particular the problems of time and safety of transporting detainees as well as difficult access for families.

Read also: Ploemeur prison: justice cancels the obligation to work made to the State

In 2021, the government finally announced as part of its "

15,000-space plan

" that the 700 new places in the Gard would be built in Nîmes. French prisons counted 62,673 detainees on January 1, 2021, according to statistical data from the Ministry of Justice. Prison density is 119.4% in remand centers, where prisoners awaiting trial and those sentenced to short sentences are held. It is greater than or equal to 120% in around a third of establishments, and reaches 193% in Nîmes.

Source: lefigaro

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