Prisoners receive massage, union reacts and France prohibits leisure in prisons
The workshops were not well accepted by the team that works in the penitentiary. “I find it shocking that a rapist, a kidnapper, can benefit from it. They are being punished for serious acts, we should also think of the victims,” Jérôme Combelle, union representative of prison employees, told the newspaper.
In May last year, a tour of detainees from Toul’s prison, east of Paris, to the Palace of Versailles, had generated controversy. The tour included four hours of bus transportation and was proposed shortly after the murder of two prison officers.
“Activities that shock”
“It is out of question (the realization of recreational activities that shock all citizens. I was deeply shocked when I learned that this free activity, which had been locally proposed, had been accepted,” said Darmanin.
He was asked about it after a visit to a prison center in western France, which could become one of the country’s four high security arrests for dangerous drug traffickers from July 31.
“I asked the director of the Penitentiary Administration (…) that instructions were given to all directors of the prison centers of all arrests, so that we are limited to the academic support and learning of the French, work related to work and activities Physical and sports within prison, “the minister told reporters.
