PARIS: Opening of the Lutterbach penitentiary center
Eric Dupond-Moretti announces the end of the transfer of prisoners.
This new prison, with a capacity of 520 places, illustrates the concrete implementation of the construction program of 15,000 additional prison places led by the Minister of Justice, by creating 123 net places following the closure of the houses of Colmar and Mulhouse stop.
Inaugurated on April 20, 2021 by the Prime Minister and the Keeper of the Seals, the Mulhouse-Lutterbach penitentiary center enters into service today. 350 people, transferred this night from the Mulhouse remand center, are being held there. The establishment will be able to accommodate 520 detainees in seven remand centers and detention centers, including one dedicated to women prisoners, another to imprisoned minors, and a “confidence quarter”, within the detainees the detainees are responsible. and benefits in return for greater autonomy.
The Mulhouse-Lutterbach establishment paves the way for a new generation of penitentiary establishments. It serves as a benchmark both through its innovative structure, designed to improve the working conditions of staff and the quality of life of detainees, and through its ability to reconcile security and new societal, urban and environmental concerns.
The Mulhouse-Lutterbach prison center is the culmination of an unprecedented project, having mobilized a budget of more than 100 million euros, carried out as part of the most committed prison real estate program for 30 years. It provides for the net creation of 15,000 additional prison places in France by 2027 and will notably allow certain establishments that are no longer suitable. It aims to reduce overcrowding in remand centers and to pursue the goal of 80% individual confinement.
For Éric Dupond-Moretti, Keeper of the Seals, Minister of Justice,“The construction operation of the Mulhouse-Lutterbach prison center is one of the concrete achievements of the plan announced in 2018 by Emmanuel Macron. It is a program that finds its realization everywhere in our territories from Caen to Avignon, from Bordeaux to Meaux via Marseille! “
For more information on the 15,000-seat program: http://www.presse.justice.gouv.fr/art_pix/dp_programme_immobilier_penitentiaire_V1_4.pdf