To enforce this system in France, Gérald Darmanin announced that he wanted “more detention places for minor sentences“. “In the current state of prisons, it is impossible to put these new ideas in place without emptying the prisons which are full to bursting,” commented Dominique Simonnot, general controller of places of deprivation of liberty, to the French media 20 Minutes. To create his places, the Minister of Justice also mentioned the construction of prisons.on a human scale“, without necessarily erecting”watchtowers and barbed wire“.
This idea seems to appeal to the French executive. “I am in favor of being able to have rapid judgments and short sentences that are actually carried out. I am not in favor of hanging out in prison because prison is the school of trafficking and networks“, declared the new Prime Minister François Bayrou at the beginning of the week. The Minister of the Interior, Bruno Retailleau, also expressed his interest in the Dutch model: “The deterrent effect makes it possible to break criminal pathways, and therefore to reduce the prison population. It’s a success that we must draw inspiration from.” he declared to Le Figaro at the beginning of October.
