Question 15240 — overseas

Summary

Mr. Elie Califer alerts the Keeper of the Seals, Minister of Justice, to the persistent absence of a specially designed hospital unit (UHSA) in Guadeloupe, even though the situation in the territory's penitentiary establishments is becoming particularly worrying. Several serious attacks committed against prison staff illustrate the urgency of this problem. In December 2023, a supervisor was scratched, stabbed and bitten, to the point of losing part of his ear. In October 2024, another agent was the victim of a scalding event which resulted in serious burns to his face and arm. In June 2025, a supervisor was again thrown with hot liquid, while in December 2025, a supervisor was violently punched in the face. These attacks all have one thing in common: they were committed by prisoners with psychological disorders, lack of suitable structures allowing their secure care. In fact, Guadeloupe still does not have any UHSA, a structure that is nevertheless essential for the reception and monitoring of detained people suffering from mental health disorders. Created to meet the specific psychiatric care needs of prisoners, UHSAs constitute an essential hybrid system between the universe prison and psychiatric hospital. However, more than twenty years after their introduction into the French prison landscape, Guadeloupe remains deprived of this fundamental tool. This deficiency occurs in a context that is already particularly tense for the local prison administration. Staff, faced with chronic prison overcrowding and understaffing estimated at sixteen missing positions, denounce poor conditions. degraded work, generating professional burnout and psychosocial risks. Furthermore, the local context of high intensity of violence and crime further reinforces the urgency of an adapted response. In 2025, Guadeloupe recorded 47 homicides, 237 attempted homicides and 286 weapons seized. In such an environment, the effectiveness of the penal response imperatively requires a penitentiary system capable of to fully ensure its missions of security, surveillance and care of the most vulnerable prisoners. Faced with this alarming situation, he asks what concrete measures the Government intends to implement so that Guadeloupe can finally be equipped with a specially equipped hospital unit, meeting the growing needs for psychiatric care in prisons and thus guaranteeing better protection of prison staff.

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