Gérald Darmanin publicizes the development of “modular” prisons, to create 3,000 new locations in “a few months” | EUROtoday

The Minister of Justice, Gérald Darmanin, confirmed, on Monday, April 14, the upcoming building of three,000 locations in jail in modular structures-prefabricated-, meant for prisoners in semi-freedom or sentenced to quick sentences.

“I made the choice to launch two calls for tenders, one for the end of May, the other for the beginning of June”to construct “3,000 additional prison places in a few months”mentioned the Keeper of the Seals after a go to to a manufacturing web site for the producer Bouygues in Crépy-en-Valois, within the Oise.

The first name for tenders will concern semi-freedom prisons, the place prisoners spend the night time after which go away the day to work, take coaching or educating. The second will intention to construct prefabricated prisons for these sentenced to quick sentences, mentioned the minister.

“These are real prisons, but built in factories as our English friends did, as our German friends have done, which allow us to save a lot of time but also money”underlined the minister, who has gone to Great Britain and Germany in current weeks to go to prisons of this kind. According to him, creating any such prefabricated penitentiary lodging is “Twice cheaper” that the creation of house in typical jail (200,000 euros towards 400,000 euros, in line with him).

The first web site that can host such a construction “Will be in Troyes, in dawn”with a jail of fifty locations. “Fifteen sites” prefabricated can be for semi-freedom prisons, and a dozen others to accommodate detainees sentenced to quick sentences.

France continues, from month to month, jail overcrowding data: March 1, 82,150 individuals have been detained in French prisons, for a complete of 62,539 operational locations. More than 4,850 detainees slept on a mattress on the ground. If the general density was 131.7 % on March 1ᵉʳ, it was established at 159.9 % in a jail, the place prisoners await judgment, subsequently alleged harmless, and people sentenced to quick sentences are imprisoned.