Protect the privacy of detainees
Prison overcrowding, lack of partitioning of toilets in cells, lack of maintenance, proliferation of bedbugs, insufficient hygiene of prisoners: all “serious failings” already reported by the General Controller of Places of Deprivation of Liberty (CGLPL) in 2022 and which have not been corrected since, denounced the Bar Association at the hearing. The judge ordered additional coverage to be issued “without delay” to detainees who request it.
“An occupancy rate of 195%”
The administration must also regularly distribute hygiene kits, as well as cell maintenance kits, to prisoners free of charge. Finally, he was ordered to isolate the toilet areas in order to protect the privacy of the prisoners. In service since 1856, the Limoges remand center has a capacity of 83 places and suffers from “old and significant prison overcrowding”, notes the judge with an occupancy rate of 195% on the day of the president’s visit. .
In Charente-Maritime, 15 inmates of the central house of Saint-Martin-de-Ré, with the OIP, took legal action to denounce “chronic unsanitary conditions”.
The summary judge of the Poitiers TA ordered to strengthen the effectiveness of measures to combat the presence of cockroaches and to ensure the regulation of water temperature in showers. The administration must also “stop the systematic nature of body searches for detainees returning from family visiting rooms”, adds the court in a press release. After a visit to the Île de Ré establishment in September 2021, the CGLPL services pointed out “building obsolescence. » Opened in 1875, this central house for long sentences is the largest in France with a capacity of around 460 places, according to the OIP.
