Number plates manufactured at La Brenaz prison (GE)

Geneva’s Brenaz prison now offers inmates a workshop where license plates for vehicles are made (archives).

Photo: KEYSTONE/MARTIAL TREZZINI

A new workshop allowing prisoners to work in order to facilitate their reintegration at the end of their sentence has been opened within the La Brenaz penitentiary establishment, in Puplinge (GE). License plates are manufactured there for the cantonal vehicle office.

The workshop offers six work places, the Department of Institutions and Digital Affairs and the Department of Health and Mobility said on Monday. It is capable of producing more than 60,000 license plates per year. It is in addition to the other workshops that exist in the prison.

This new activity contributes to opening up the detention environment by creating bridges with the city through subjects that are meaningful and useful both to the community and to those detained, notes, in the press release, Claude Bettex, the general director of the cantonal detention office.

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