"It won't be a jihadist dollhouse."
Despite her pleasant face and her calm and determined voice, Véronique Sousset, the director of the Rennes penitentiary center, carries a heavy project on her shoulders. A 9-hectare complex in the city center, the only one in France exclusively devoted to women, which accommodates a little over 200 inmates. On Monday, it will welcome the first six inmates convicted of terrorism, in the first and brand new district for the prevention of radicalization devoted to women. Ultimately, they will be supervised by eighteen supervisors, three first supervisors, an officer, a prison intelligence delegate and three integration and probation counselors, two psychologists, two educators and a social worker.
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The Rennes prison hexagon rises around an elegant cloister path and a Garden of Paradise planted with olive trees, palm trees and hundred-year-old chestnut trees that the inmates diligently maintain.
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