Question 16710 — places of deprivation of liberty

Summary

Ms. Colette Capdevielle questions Mr. Keeper of the Seals, Minister of Justice, on the future of associative closed educational centers (CEF). In February 2026, a ministerial circular announced the end of the CEFs and their transformation into judicial units with educational priority (UJPE). This decision, announced without prior consultation with the authorized voluntary sector, raises serious concern. Of the sixty existing CEFs, the 41 managed by associations will have to begin their transformation before December 2027, with the risk of a significant reduction in their human and financial resources. However, the difficulties encountered by these establishments do not reflect a structural dysfunction. The report of the General Inspectorate of Justice, published in March 2025 at the request of the minister's predecessor, did not recommend this overhaul. Its recommendations focused on strengthening supervision, improving training and working conditions for educators, not a total transformation of the model. Experts in the field - educators, magistrates, CNAPE federation, child protection actors - warn: under the guise of educational strengthening, the reform results in a de facto reduction in the resources allocated to CEFs managed by associations and weakens them in a context already marked by a glaring lack of places and educational alternatives to detention. The juvenile criminal justice code establishes the primacy of educational responses over penalties. A recent study by the ministry indicates a 28% increase in the number of minors detained between January 1, 2023 and January 1, 2026. The abolition and transformation of CEFs could lead to increased recourse to incarceration due to the destabilization of the penal placement system. By reforming itself without prior consultation, the State is weakening associative partners on which it has structurally relied for decades. In this context, she asks him the means by which he intends to preserve the educational vocation of the CEFs and prevent recidivism, without amputating these structures of the teams which make them valuable - already confronted with many others priority realities.

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