For several years, the Seysses remand center, south of Toulouse, has been “overcrowded”, accommodating more prisoners than the places provided. Without the means of the administration following according to the unions of supervisors who mobilized this Tuesday morning. A few dozen blocked access to the prison, before the intervention of the gendarmes in the middle of the morning.
“No authority responds to the problems of Seysses. The guards wanted to show their fed up “and chose the day of” the induction ceremony “of the prison director to do so, explained to AFP Christy Nicolas, of the prison guards’ union, who had called for mobilization with FO-Justice and Ufap-Unsa.
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All are calling for the creation of new positions, better training and “the renewal of all the security equipment which is currently lacking”. While the remand center exceeds the workforce of 1,000 prisoners, while 600 places were planned when it opened in 2003, it has 250 guards. It would take 30 more according to the unions.
An establishment regularly singled out for its conditions of detention. In July 2021, the controller of prisons, Dominique Simonnot, had described them as unworthy. And during the month of August, the Toulouse administrative court once again ordered the State to improve these conditions of detention in Seysses.