“We are very late”, recognizes the Minister of Justice Didier Migaud on France 2

This was a commitment by Emmanuel Macron in 2017 in the face of prison overcrowding: to build 15,000 new prison places in ten years. The objective will not be achieved recognized Didier Migaud on France 2 on Tuesday November 19. “I hope so for 2029 at best… We will only manage to achieve 6,421, or 42%. We are very late in implementing this plan… It is not enough to have this observation, we must take measures to know how this delay can be made up for.“, he declared on the 8 p.m. set. , it takes more than seven years… Perhaps we need to move away from the single prison model with extremely demanding security conditions… You can have smaller centers that require less security“, he explained.

Watch the full interview in the video above.