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Prison overcrowding: prisons on the verge of implosion

2024-04-02T17:47:00.699Z

Highlights: More than 77,200 inmates, for 61,359 operational places in France. The plan to build 15,000 cells, far from being achieved, is already obsolete. Situation will be even more critical in the coming weeks and months. “It’s a dramatic and totally unconscious situation,” says FO Direction's Sébastien Nicolas. ‘For the Paris area, this is sadly normal. But now, this overpopulation is also stratospheric,’ he adds.


They now accommodate more than 77,200 inmates, for 61,359 operational places. The plan to build 15,000 cells, far from being achieved, is already obsolete.


“I fear summer”

. Three words that all justice professionals share today, whether they are magistrates or prison staff. Sébastien Nicolas, secretary general of FO Direction, reveals that there are

“more than 77,200 prisoners”

for 61,359 operational places in France and that in the summer,

“the bar of 80,000 prisoners has a good chance of to be surpassed. “It’s a dramatic and totally unconscious situation

. ”

While the plan to build 15,000 prison places is far from being achieved, it is already obsolete.

The situation will be even more critical in the coming weeks and months. Because, notes Yoann Karar, deputy secretary general of FO Surveillants,

“as the Olympic Games approach, incarcerations are increasing everywhere in France. Added to this are the XXL operations: all these people arrested will have to be put somewhere!”

“sadly normal”

“For the Paris area, this is sadly normal. But now, this overpopulation is also stratospheric...

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Source: lefigaro

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