[Music]
good evening everyone to start a number
69 1430
this is a record 69400 30
it’s the number of inmates in
French prisons on 1 March 2017
sixty nine thousand four hundred and thirty
detainees
that’s more than 98 outfits
per hundred thousand inhabitants
ie almost 1 held for
1000 inhabitants
to give you a thousand idea
people it’s probably less than
the number of high school students you
have attended
that is to say that one of your comrades
students
one of my high school classmates is
today in detention
then certainly 98 inmates per hundred thousand
inhabitants
this time less than in the states
united but it’s also twice as
in the countries of northern Europe
in the image of the Netherlands or the
Finland especially 69400 30 inmates
a record that suggests that the rate
delinquency does not stop
to increase in France
Nevertheless, it is not the case
contrary to what we hear
often especially during the election period
the delinquency rate has not changed
a lot in recent years it’s
then logical to ask yourself a question
why French prisons are
always more fulfilled the answer is
to look for policies
criminal societal choices that we
have done the last 20 years
so I propose you not from you
ask only why the prisons
French are always more fulfilled
but what sense
did we choose in france to give to
the custodial sentence
what should be the most
severe of the repressive arsenal
French
what should serve the prison sentence
obviously it serves to
intimidate deterred individuals from
violate the rules of society
necessary to live together and the case
where appropriate, it serves to punish
neutralize that is to say to put to
away the people judged
dangerous for the safety of the
company for our security
it is this request for
security that pushed us to
group together to live together to create
the state and entrust him with the power to
punish but far from being appeased this
security demand has intensified
over time the fear of the other has become
multiplied and today only one
solution seems possible to ensure
our security punish more faster and
Longer
therefore and for the sake of
immediate result
the legislator has multiplied the
neutralization mechanisms
individuals up to allow with the
security retention to maintain
locked up for a duration
potentially unlimited an individual
suspected to be dangerous
every day in France 220 detainees
come out of prison
if the sentence must serve to punish is
neutralized to be effective long
term
so she can not only serve that
the prison is a place that encloses but
the prison is also a place from where one
goes out the prison sentence must therefore be
a useful time it must allow the
condemned to prepare his return from
there in society
it must allow him to think
to his actions for maybe
rebuild your life
punishment must therefore punish but it must
also educate norms and socialize for
summarize for the sentence to be effective
she must punish and re socialize her
must have two faces one turned
to the past
that is to say towards the delinquent act and
punishment and the other turned towards
the future, that is, towards the return
in the society
reintegration reintegration
to be the horizon of the custodial sentence of
freedom
but what about in practice
French prisons prepare the
detainees on their way out
already they are these sixty nine
one thousand four hundred and thirty people
held to simplify a third party are
defendants
that is, people who have not
not been judged who were not
convicted and who are presumed
innocent
the other two-thirds are
convicts and among those sentenced more
half are only for
damage to property
that is, type offenses
recel flight degradations so they did
committed no harm to people from
rap and assault type rape or
homicide
the profiles of the detainees are varied
despite this all the prisons
French were thought out and
built in the same way they
were built to have one for
achieve their safety goals
neutralization and to avoid any
attempt to escape
therefore, the buildings include
many locked doors
windows has bars the walls
fences buildings include
also surveillance cameras
security gantries
because of this high level of
security
a prisoner costs 36000 euros per year
the condition and despite this high price
the state is not in ability to him
offer detention conditions
decent
indeed the prisons have become the
mirror magnifying faults of the
society there mingle poverty
promiscuity violence and diseases he
still exists many
dilapidated establishments of the cell
9 square meters shared by several
cellmates with only
purpose of cell fencing
allowing no privacy a problem
further amplify by overpopulation
you probably have
all already heard a
prison overcrowding
the detention houses ie the
prisons
are locked up the defendants the
people who are presumed
innocent and detainees to short
pains
ie eight months on average then
there is new construction
institutions but that does not solve
nothing in the current security choice
more there is room
the more we condemn for all these reasons
French prisons do not allow
not play their role of re
socialization the conditions of
detention tend to
accelerate the desocialization of
detainees then you’re going to tell me he
is easy to make such a finding but
it is more complex to propose
solutions solutions allowing
find a balance between security
and freedom to punish and reintegrate
but there are some and I’m going to
propose 3
first of all propose alternatives
to prison
it is possible to unclog the
prisons
by developing alternatives to
detention and pronouncing sentences
performed in an open environment
ie sentences executed
in the free society in the image of
community service or port
electronic bracelet
these penalties make it possible to sanction
condemn while letting him live in
the society
he will thus undergo obligations of
work he’s going to be deprived of his
freedom to move but he goes
keep your family benchmarks or
societal these sentences are
particularly interesting for
people who do not pose a danger
for the people
in addition she avoids incarceration
and so she avoids the little ones
offenders to create a network
it also prevents the person from
be transformed by violence
prison precisely I come to my
second solution improve the
conditions of detention
the prison no longer needs to be dehumanized
she must not be angry anymore
detainees against the
society that made them live in
unworthy conditions
the prison must be a useful time
it must be a turnaround time
the difference during which the detainee can
think about the consequences of his actions and
can understand his third sentence
solution better prepare the return in
the society of prisoners very often
the prisoner is released from prison
the former prisoner is released from prison without
its output is prepared from the blow the
back to society is difficult
when there are penalty amenities
that allow a smooth return in
the society
the recidivism rate decreases
significant
this early return surrounded
of bonds allows prisoners to
the ex inmate should learn the
rules without constraint while being
subject to state monitoring that can
make sure that this back in the
company goes on in good
terms
who can make sure that this return is
not dangerous for society
this preparation at the exit can
also to prepare in prison the
prison is not obliged to be
always coercive she is not
obliged to always impose the rules
inmates the level of security
can be adapt the prison can be
evolutive and gradually become
more educational more normative in order to
to enable prisoners to understand the
rules to assimilate them for then
apply them
only this possibility she was
developed by the European countries of
North
those same countries that I remind you
have lower incarceration rates
to ours
it’s about open prisons these are
prisons his wall without bars this
are prisons that are used in
end of sentence
just before liberation for you
give an idea
these prisons are often prisons
agricultural built earlier in
campaign and they have the shape of small
villages
they are focused on the side
educational punishment the inmates have
the right to move freely
during authorized hours
preventing the risk of escape
is based on the assimilation of the rules
by the detainees
they know
yes they can and you can not
to go what they can is what they do
can not do so they have a
effect felt while reading
they allow prisoners to live
in a more peaceful and especially
in an institution that is thought
to initiate this reintegration project
to give you an example the prisons
Finnish law allow prisoners to
work and touch a
remuneration to follow studies and
to receive a grant
they even allow when the
inmate obtains authorizations
special that he goes shopping
in town or that they take days of
holidays
in exchange he pays rent to the
prison then there is no wall there
no bars so far there is no
no escape
indeed the inmates agreed to
go to this open prison
they are volunteers and especially they
know what they risk if they try
to escape a return to prison
firm and and that he does not want it
since they prefer to prepare their
exit
despite the effectiveness of these
open prisons since they make
lower the recidivism rate by more than
20% and despite their price a place in
open prison costs 35% less
that a place in prison and on the
almost 200 establishments
penitentiaries in France there is only
two prisons of this type the prison
open casabianda in Corsica and the
prison village of mauzac in Dordogne
I just offered you three
proposed solutions of sentences
alternatives improve the conditions
detention and better prepare the
back to the society of the inmates he
there are solutions
there are solutions that allow
find the balance between punishing and re
socialize the sentence can be
individualized the prison sentence can
no longer be automatic
and when it is sentenced to
prison can evolve
it can be evolutionary and
gradually security can
give way to freedom so that the
hardly be effective it’s time
to open our minds and it’s time
to open our prisons thank you
[Applause]
[Music]
good evening everyone to start a number
69 1430
this is a record 69400 30
it’s the number of inmates in
French prisons on 1 March 2017
sixty nine thousand four hundred and thirty
detainees
that’s more than 98 outfits
per hundred thousand inhabitants
ie almost 1 held for
1000 inhabitants
to give you a thousand idea
people it’s probably less than
the number of high school students you
have attended
that is to say that one of your comrades
students
one of my high school classmates is
today in detention
then certainly 98 inmates per hundred thousand
inhabitants
this time less than in the states
united but it’s also twice as
in the countries of northern Europe
in the image of the Netherlands or the
Finland especially 69400 30 inmates
a record that suggests that the rate
delinquency does not stop
to increase in France
Nevertheless, it is not the case
contrary to what we hear
often especially during the election period
the delinquency rate has not changed
a lot in recent years it’s
then logical to ask yourself a question
why French prisons are
always more fulfilled the answer is
to look for policies
criminal societal choices that we
have done the last 20 years
so I propose you not from you
ask only why the prisons
French are always more fulfilled
but what sense
did we choose in france to give to
the custodial sentence
what should be the most
severe of the repressive arsenal
French
what should serve the prison sentence
obviously it serves to
intimidate deterred individuals from
violate the rules of society
necessary to live together and the case
where appropriate, it serves to punish
neutralize that is to say to put to
away the people judged
dangerous for the safety of the
company for our security
it is this request for
security that pushed us to
group together to live together to create
the state and entrust him with the power to
punish but far from being appeased this
security demand has intensified
over time the fear of the other has become
multiplied and today only one
solution seems possible to ensure
our security punish more faster and
Longer
therefore and for the sake of
immediate result
the legislator has multiplied the
neutralization mechanisms
individuals up to allow with the
security retention to maintain
locked up for a duration
potentially unlimited an individual
suspected to be dangerous
every day in France 220 detainees
come out of prison
if the sentence must serve to punish is
neutralized to be effective long
term
so she can not only serve that
the prison is a place that encloses but
the prison is also a place from where one
goes out the prison sentence must therefore be
a useful time it must allow the
condemned to prepare his return from
there in society
it must allow him to think
to his actions for maybe
rebuild your life
punishment must therefore punish but it must
also educate norms and socialize for
summarize for the sentence to be effective
she must punish and re socialize her
must have two faces one turned
to the past
that is to say towards the delinquent act and
punishment and the other turned towards
the future, that is, towards the return
in the society
reintegration reintegration
to be the horizon of the custodial sentence of
freedom
but what about in practice
French prisons prepare the
detainees on their way out
already they are these sixty nine
one thousand four hundred and thirty people
held to simplify a third party are
defendants
that is, people who have not
not been judged who were not
convicted and who are presumed
innocent
the other two-thirds are
convicts and among those sentenced more
half are only for
damage to property
that is, type offenses
recel flight degradations so they did
committed no harm to people from
rap and assault type rape or
homicide
the profiles of the detainees are varied
despite this all the prisons
French were thought out and
built in the same way they
were built to have one for
achieve their safety goals
neutralization and to avoid any
attempt to escape
therefore, the buildings include
many locked doors
windows has bars the walls
fences buildings include
also surveillance cameras
security gantries
because of this high level of
security
a prisoner costs 36000 euros per year
the condition and despite this high price
the state is not in ability to him
offer detention conditions
decent
indeed the prisons have become the
mirror magnifying faults of the
society there mingle poverty
promiscuity violence and diseases he
still exists many
dilapidated establishments of the cell
9 square meters shared by several
cellmates with only
purpose of cell fencing
allowing no privacy a problem
further amplify by overpopulation
you probably have
all already heard a
prison overcrowding
the detention houses ie the
prisons
are locked up the defendants the
people who are presumed
innocent and detainees to short
pains
ie eight months on average then
there is new construction
institutions but that does not solve
nothing in the current security choice
more there is room
the more we condemn for all these reasons
French prisons do not allow
not play their role of re
socialization the conditions of
detention tend to
accelerate the desocialization of
detainees then you’re going to tell me he
is easy to make such a finding but
it is more complex to propose
solutions solutions allowing
find a balance between security
and freedom to punish and reintegrate
but there are some and I’m going to
propose 3
first of all propose alternatives
to prison
it is possible to unclog the
prisons
by developing alternatives to
detention and pronouncing sentences
performed in an open environment
ie sentences executed
in the free society in the image of
community service or port
electronic bracelet
these penalties make it possible to sanction
condemn while letting him live in
the society
he will thus undergo obligations of
work he’s going to be deprived of his
freedom to move but he goes
keep your family benchmarks or
societal these sentences are
particularly interesting for
people who do not pose a danger
for the people
in addition she avoids incarceration
and so she avoids the little ones
offenders to create a network
it also prevents the person from
be transformed by violence
prison precisely I come to my
second solution improve the
conditions of detention
the prison no longer needs to be dehumanized
she must not be angry anymore
detainees against the
society that made them live in
unworthy conditions
the prison must be a useful time
it must be a turnaround time
the difference during which the detainee can
think about the consequences of his actions and
can understand his third sentence
solution better prepare the return in
the society of prisoners very often
the prisoner is released from prison
the former prisoner is released from prison without
its output is prepared from the blow the
back to society is difficult
when there are penalty amenities
that allow a smooth return in
the society
the recidivism rate decreases
significant
this early return surrounded
of bonds allows prisoners to
the ex inmate should learn the
rules without constraint while being
subject to state monitoring that can
make sure that this back in the
company goes on in good
terms
who can make sure that this return is
not dangerous for society
this preparation at the exit can
also to prepare in prison the
prison is not obliged to be
always coercive she is not
obliged to always impose the rules
inmates the level of security
can be adapt the prison can be
evolutive and gradually become
more educational more normative in order to
to enable prisoners to understand the
rules to assimilate them for then
apply them
only this possibility she was
developed by the European countries of
North
those same countries that I remind you
have lower incarceration rates
to ours
it’s about open prisons these are
prisons his wall without bars this
are prisons that are used in
end of sentence
just before liberation for you
give an idea
these prisons are often prisons
agricultural built earlier in
campaign and they have the shape of small
villages
they are focused on the side
educational punishment the inmates have
the right to move freely
during authorized hours
preventing the risk of escape
is based on the assimilation of the rules
by the detainees
they know
yes they can and you can not
to go what they can is what they do
can not do so they have a
effect felt while reading
they allow prisoners to live
in a more peaceful and especially
in an institution that is thought
to initiate this reintegration project
to give you an example the prisons
Finnish law allow prisoners to
work and touch a
remuneration to follow studies and
to receive a grant
they even allow when the
inmate obtains authorizations
special that he goes shopping
in town or that they take days of
holidays
in exchange he pays rent to the
prison then there is no wall there
no bars so far there is no
no escape
indeed the inmates agreed to
go to this open prison
they are volunteers and especially they
know what they risk if they try
to escape a return to prison
firm and and that he does not want it
since they prefer to prepare their
exit
despite the effectiveness of these
open prisons since they make
lower the recidivism rate by more than
20% and despite their price a place in
open prison costs 35% less
that a place in prison and on the
almost 200 establishments
penitentiaries in France there is only
two prisons of this type the prison
open casabianda in Corsica and the
prison village of mauzac in Dordogne
I just offered you three
proposed solutions of sentences
alternatives improve the conditions
detention and better prepare the
back to the society of the inmates he
there are solutions
there are solutions that allow
find the balance between punishing and re
socialize the sentence can be
individualized the prison sentence can
no longer be automatic
and when it is sentenced to
prison can evolve
it can be evolutionary and
gradually security can
give way to freedom so that the
hardly be effective it’s time
to open our minds and it’s time
to open our prisons thank you
[Applause]
[Music]
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