Question 16095 — places of deprivation of liberty

Summary

Mr. Benjamin Saint-Huile draws the attention of the Keeper of the Seals, Minister of Justice, to prison overcrowding and the deterioration of detention and staff working conditions. In February 2024, 76,258 prisoners were counted in French prisons for 61,737 places, or 5.5% more in one year. A new record that continues to be broken every month. At this rate of sustained growth in the penal population, the overall delivery of the 15,000 additional places scheduled by 2027 will not be enough for the management of the prison administration to meet the objective of 80% individual cells. Failure to respect this fundamental principle is already unbearable and unworthy of French democracy. This chronic overpopulation actually leads to a deterioration in the working conditions of all prison staff, who are overstretched and no longer able to carry out their missions in an acceptable working environment. They face daily problems of cohabitation in cells, tensions, threats and attacks. This work overload accumulates in all departments. Added to these great difficulties in working conditions is the rapid deterioration of the housing stock. In this context, it appears essential to open a reflection background around the role of prisons in society. There are numerous questions calling for a move away from an accounting logic of flow management, to the detriment of security, custody and reintegration missions. An adaptation of the current housing stock, so that the accommodation capacities and the profile of the people incarcerated allow prison staff to fully carry out their missions, could be considered. He therefore asks him about the concrete measures envisaged to reduce prison overcrowding in the long term.

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