Disappearance of thousands of Books collected by the Yanou project

Where did the 2,810 Books collected as part of the Yanou projectintended to provide access to reading to inmates of the Baie-Mahault penitentiary center and the Basse-Terre remand center ?

This question has been tormenting the project volunteers for several weeks.

Books destroyed, but why?

Lorenza Bourjac, active member of the collectivepoints the finger at the Prison Service for Integration and Probation (SPIP) of Basse-Terre. According to her, these works collected thanks to a citizen collection on June 8 have mysteriously disappeared.

These 2,810 pounds were entrusted to the SPIP, precisely to Nathalie Denorme, the director, who assured that they would be distributed between the Basse-Terre remand center and the Baie-Mahault penitentiary center.

Lorenza Bourjac claims to have relaunched the SPIP twice to obtain news from the distribution, without success.

On November 15, by email, Nathalie Denorme informed me that part of the books had been destroyed because it did not meet the selection criteria for places of deprivation of liberty, and that another part was considered too damaged to be distributed. She said that the rest had been given to the Basse-Terre remand center, but after checking with the head of the establishment, no books had been received. I therefore assume that all of the works were destroyed.

The Yanou project aims to make reading an essential tool in the reintegration process of prisoners. This mass disappearance is a blow to the volunteers and to those they sought to help. Faced with these explanations deemed insufficient, the Yanou project volunteers are calling on the SPIP for more transparency.