An inmate brought to the visiting room in his underwear and forced to remain bedridden due to lack of caregiver. Another who for years has not had access to an electric wheelchair or the physiotherapy sessions he needs… Being disabled in prison is sometimes a form of double punishment in certain establishments. Particularly in Toul … Read more
Saw in hand, Jacob Castro opens fire lines in the hills around Los Angeles. Difficult work but an opportunity for redemption for him, who spent 29 years in prison. “It’s the first thing I’ve done in my life that I’m proud of.”he told AFP, taking advantage of a short break. Jacob Castro is among a … Read more
THE “hundred biggest drug traffickers” who continue their criminal activity from their cell will be isolated in “a high security prison” in the summer, announced Sunday on LCI the Minister of Justice Gérald Darmanin. “We are going to take a French prison, we are going to empty it of the people who are there and … Read more
The hostage taking would have started late in the morning this Friday. According to information revealed by Provencean inmate from Arles prison (Bouches-du-Rhône) has reportedly been holding several people hostage for several hours. Five people would be held by this armed inmate: four nursing staff and a prison guard. According to a prison source, the … Read more
Between Place Beauvau and Place Vendôme, Gérald Darmanin carried his obsession: the fight against drug trafficking. Newly appointed Minister of Justice, the former Minister of the Interior, announced a salvo of proposals intended to prevent the most experienced drug traffickers from operating from their prison cells. To do this, he wants to generalize the jamming … Read more
As of December 1, 80,792 people were detained in France, a new record, for 62,404 places, according to figures posted online Tuesday evening by the Ministry of Justice. An endemic disease in France, prison overcrowding continues to break records month after month. The overall prison density was 129.5% as of December 1. This density, greater … Read more
“We will never see Sarkozy at the shtar, that’s an observation. » The rapper Maes, in his song Yeezwas not entirely wrong. Sentenced in the wiretapping affair to three years in prison, two of which were suspended, by the Paris Court of Appeal, the former President of the Republic has escaped incarceration. On the other … Read more
The novelist Sandrine Collette won the Goncourt prize for prisoners on Tuesday with “Madelain before dawn”already crowned with the Goncourt for high school students at the end of November, the National Book Center announced on Tuesday. This novel, published in August by JC Lattès, reached the final of the Prix Goncourt at the beginning of … Read more
His lifeless body was discovered Sunday morning in his locked cell. An inmate from Meaux-Chauconin prison (Seine-et-Marne) died on the night of Saturday December 14 to Sunday December 15, 2024, reveals The Parisian. According to our colleagues, the victim was discovered by a prison officer late Sunday morning and had a large wound on his … Read more
He is currently serving three long prison sentences, including one of fourteen years of criminal imprisonment for his spectacular escape from Réau prison in 2018. Placed in solitary confinement because considered a prisoner at risk, Rédoine Faïd could soon see his conditions of detention be lightened. This Monday, a sentencing judge asked to put an … Read more