At the end of a visit to the Domenjod penitentiary center, the regional president denounced prison overcrowding and asked the State to “take its responsibilities”, whether in Reunion or Mayotte.
Written by TL – Monday October 14, 2024 at 7:12 p.m.
“Here in Reunion, we have a situation that is extremely difficult since we have 38% of our people living below the poverty line. We have 40,000 people waiting for housing, so how can we give housing to other people who arrive? Let the French government resolve these problems! “, Huguette Bello said this Monday afternoon.
After MP Jean-Hugues Ratenon, it is the turn of the President of the Region to take offense at the transfer of 27 detainees from Majicavo prison to Port and Domenjod prison, following last week’s mutiny in Mayotte. .
“Build prisons in Mayotte”
Explaining that she was responding to an emergency call from the unions, Huguette Bello visited the Domenjod penitentiary center, accompanied by the FO justice manager for Reunion and Mayotte Vincent Pardoux, not without recalling that when she was a parliamentarian, she had fought for that this equipment, which was intended to be in the modern era, be built in Saint-Denis.
Referring to the figure of 1,500 people detained on our island for 1,235 places, Huguette Bello pointed out the situation in Domenjod, where 824 prisoners are counted for 575 places, with 178% prison overcrowding among women. “When we conceived Domenjod, we talked about individual enclosure”she recalled, noting that the International Prison Observatory had recently again highlighted the situation of prisoners in France and assuring that she would alert Prime Minister Michel Barnier by mail.
“The State must take its responsibilities since Mayotte is the 101st French department, France must give the Mahorais all the rights of the French. The difference in RSA makes a draft here. Build prisons in Mayotte, and schools too! »proclaimed Huguette Bello to the attention of the government.
The president of the region indicated that the community was going to launch a call for tenders for the training of 148 prisoners in 2025 and 2026, inviting companies to come through the prison doors to offer work to prisoners.
