Question 14686 — places of deprivation of liberty

Summary

Ms. Catherine Jaouen questions the Keeper of the Seals, Minister of Justice, about a situation of non-respect of the rights of the defense. The Minister issued Ordinance 2022-478 on March 30, 2022, integrating into the prison code an article L. 313-2 worded as follows: “Detained persons communicate freely with their lawyers. The terms of application of this article are fixed by decree in the Council of State. The deputy is seized by the president of the Avignon Bar Association, of which she is a member, who alerts her that for many months, lawyers have been unable to meet incarcerated people, at the Pontet penitentiary center, in particular, on certain Saturdays. But still, the Avignon bar has just been informed of the possibility of random closure of the lawyer's visiting room on certain Fridays or Mondays. This situation is unacceptable. It's a violation of the right of defense, because as article R313-15 of the prison code states: “Communication is made verbally or in writing. No sanction or measure can suppress, or restrict, the free communication of the detained person with his or her counsel.” As President Philipe Cano rightly indicates: “There was a time when France was the homeland of Human Rights, it now seems to be becoming that of serious breaches of the essential principles of law and quite simply of human dignity.” In addition, some inmates of this remand center are forced to live cloistered with three people in a cell designed to accommodate only one. The other two detainees sleep on mattresses on the floor. She would like to know if he wishes to provide immediate solutions to the obstacles that lawyers encounter in freely visiting their clients detainees and whether it has considered lasting solutions in order to guarantee dignified detention conditions for the same detainees.

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1. 30 January 2024

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2. 23 April 2024

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   Le ministère de la Justice poursuit son engagement afin d'assurer le respect des droits de la défense des personnes détenues ainsi que de préserver des conditions dignes de détention. A cet égard, l'impossibilité d'accès aux parloirs avocats au centre pénitentiaire d'Avignon-le-Pontet concernait uniquement la journée du 1er mars 2024. Il s'agissait d'une situation isolée pour laquelle une solution alternative fut envisagée par le directeur de l'établissement pénitentiaire dans l'éventualité d'effectifs insuffisants ce jour-là. En l'espèce, il n'y a eu aucune perturbation du fonctionnement des parloirs le 1er mars 2024. Enfin, au 29 janvier 2024, le CP d'Avignon-le-Pontet dénombrait 24 matelas au sol contre 39, le 29 mai 2023. Egalement, si au 1er janvier 2024, la densité carcérale du quartier maison d'arrêt (QMA) de l'établissement était de 148,7 %, celle du quartier centre de détention (QCD) était de 94,4 %. L'ouverture de la structure d'accompagnement vers la sortie (SAS) au sein du CP, avec l'arrivée progressive de personnes détenues depuis le mois d'octobre 2023, permet la diminution du taux de surpopulation carcérale au QMA.

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