“Among the 5,000 requests that we receive each year from detainees or their relatives, around 20% concern the issue of care,”
notes François Bès, coordinator of the investigations unit at the French section of the International Prison Observatory ( OIP). An observation shared by the General Controller of Places of Deprivation of Liberty (CGLPL):
"This is a subject at the heart of our concerns
," confirms Dominique Simonnot.
Prisoners must benefit from a quality and continuity of care equivalent to that offered to the general population, ”
indicates the website of the Ministry of Health.
"In France on paper everything is great, but on the ground it is much less"
, summarizes the CGLPL which took office in 2020.
Since the law of January 18, 1994, the medical care of people known as
"under the control of justice"
, that is to say convicted and serving a sentence in an open or closed environment, is the responsibility of the Ministry of Health. .
Caregivers who
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