In Europe, only Cyprus and Romania are doing worse than us. France is a bad student when it comes to prison overpopulation. 2027 was to accommodate 15,000 additional prison places, which were revised downwards to 4,500 effective places. Faced with the discontent of voters who do not want remand centers near their homes, our elected officials have given up building new establishments. Result: prison, in France, is the mirror of all our renunciations.
As there is no space, we gave up on carrying out short sentences and to clear our conscience, we invented a moral on so-called facilitated reintegration by non-incarceration. We have given up on really banning cell phones, otherwise we would not have equipped our prisons with jammers which, despite the sums spent, are not capable of jamming 5G.
We have given up on protecting our prison guards. And inevitably, we are no longer able to recruit and how can we not understand them? Between those who are followed home and beaten up and those who are liquidated like in the escape of Mohamed Amra – all this for earn 2,000 to 2,800 euros per month – it's not worth it.
“The task is immense for Gérald Darmanin”
Due to a lack of fighters, we also gave up chasing the crooks and thugs who, for some, realized that it was more lucrative and much less dangerous to let the drones fly, which deliver drugs and cell phones to the detainees, than to risk their lives. And as there is still a large majority of honest supervisors – and we thank them for that – the drug traffickers are now encouraging their little protégés to take the guard competition, just to complete their transform our prisons into a school of crime.
The picture is bleak but you just have to get on with it. Reports have been piling up for years. We must build super-secure prisons for the big bosses, and perhaps we will finally be able to prevent them from having phones to conduct their business from the inside, and lighter structures for short sentences. The task is immense for Gérald Darmaninbut it is on these questions that the French are waiting for him.
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