On June 22, during his speech before Parliament in joint session at Versailles, the President of the Republic discussed the situation of French prisons. One can find the video of this speech here and document the text of the speech here .
The President stated:
"Detention is a hard test. It should not be degrading. What hope reintegrate into society those that have for years deprived of all dignity? The state of our prisons we all know, is a disgrace to our republic. "
In pronouncing these words, the Head of State took into account the criticisms in the first annual report last April by the Comptroller General of places of deprivation of liberty, Jean-Marie Delarue, which critics corroborate the findings and conclusions overwhelmingly numerous reports appeared in nearly a decade in particular those of the International Observatory of Prisons (OIP).
This is an opportunity to look at the map French prisons proposed site of the Ministry of Justice upon which the prison authorities:
By clicking on each of the major regions of this map can access the details of the location of prisons with different symbols by type of institution as here the case of the Ile de France:
At 1 January 2009, France has:
- 194 prisons (111 jails, 77 institutions for punishment, 6 establishments juvenile detention - EPM)
- 62 000 prisoners for whom 83.5% spend a year or less in custody
- 160 000 people followed in open
- 7 new major facilities and 2 neighborhood short sentences (QCP) in 2009 or 5130 additional places
- 103 Prison Service and probation (SPIP)
- 33 000 24 300 agents whose personal monitoring
- 6000 players every day in detention, 2,200 health workers
- 11.8% of those convicted receive an adjustment of penalty
- 2.4 billion annual budget overall
Behind these official figures and to say nothing of the state prisons and the situation of detainees, the President's speech sounds of the Republic as both a confession and a fresh start in French prison policy at least as regards the conditions lives of inmates. Hopefully ...
Meanwhile, as inmates often see the world a piece of sky, we observe from the sky, French prisons and their geometric characteristics so often.
How not to rethink here Michel Foucault who in 1667 spoke in his "History of Madness in the Classical Age" the large enclosure about the construction of General Hospital and of the Edict of confinement of the poor: this should be a hospital where they treat patients, it became a prison where the patients were considered criminals. "Michel Foucault notes the great similarity in patterns of abuse or treatment accorded to large groups of individuals who constitute the boundaries of the social group: the lunatics, convicts, some groups of foreigners, soldiers and children. He believes that ultimately, they have in common to be regarded with suspicion and excluded by a rule in confinement in closed structures, skilled, organized and built on similar models (asylums, prisons, barracks, schools) inspired model monastic what he called "disciplinary institution" .
At the same time, Vauban built the citadel of St. Martin de Ré became between 1873 and 1938 for a step condemned to prison, especially to New Caledonia and then to Guyana. Today the citadel, as penitentiary, is still in business: it's a house plant that receives more than 400 prisoners:
It falls to me to mind the song by Léo Ferré "Shit Vauban"
"Convict, convict to Vauban
in IL 'Ré
J'mang' black bread and white walls in IL
'Ré
to the city' awaits me darling '
But in twenty years
For ell 'I n'serai nobody' Shit
Vauban "
Bagnard, I am, chain and ball
All this for nothing, they shook my
in it's Ré
is for my good
We see the clouds pass
Who will die
Me j'vois s'faner the prime
Shit to Vauvan
Bagnard
ladies here in IL, Ré
S'approch'nt trim our wings to see
in IL 'Ré
Ah! That never comes that I love so
For her I missed the beautiful
Shit Vauban
Bagnard beautiful it is up there in the gray sky
Ell 'goes behind bars
I'm Up Paris with her in solitary
While dreaming
In my love is the best of
Shit Vauban
Bagnard, time lengthens as
in IL 'Ré
With Lice time gnawing at you
in IL' Ré
Where are his eyes where his mouth
With the wind
It sometimes seems as
touch 'em Hell
Vauban is a little black hearse all
Narrow and old
Who m'sortira by a And this evening
s'ra
better I will be seeing the white road
feet before
But I chant'rai to ssous of my boards to Vauban's
Shit "
(Text by Pierre Seghers , Music Léo Ferré)
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