Béatrice Brugère
has been a criminal magistrate for twenty years and head of the SNM-FO Magistrates Unit Union.
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Justice is a container like any other, which overflows beyond certain limits.
The same goes for prisons.
Prison places have increased by 19.5% since 2000, but this was largely insufficient to absorb the flow of admissions to detention, which increased by more than 30%.
As of December 1, 2022, the prison density in remand centers was 142.8% and 94.2% in detention centers.
The trend is therefore clearly increasing.
In reality, France is increasingly under-equipped in prisons, which leads to penal overpopulation which is not the cause, but the consequence of this under-equipment, despite legislation which tends to incarcerate fewer people. in less.
If we do not take into account the increase in population, the increase in crime and, more recently, the part played by foreign crime, we cannot honestly understand...
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