These breaks can deter some prisoners from maintaining their request for sentence adjustment, “which contradicts the objective of combating recidivism and reintegrating“, she believes.
The mechanism for assessing long-term prisoners causes “breakups“in reintegration and suffers”inconsistencies“questioning his”relevance“, Estimates the Controller General of Places of Deprivation of Liberty (CGLPL), Dominique Simonnot, in a notice published on Wednesday.
“As they are currently implemented, these evaluation mechanisms entail infringements of some of the fundamental rights of persons deprived of their liberty.“Adds this independent authority, calling for reform of the legal framework of the National Evaluation Center (CNE).
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Managed by the Directorate of Prison Administration (DAP) and spread over four sites in France, this CNE intervenes at two stages very far from the incarceration of long sentences. As part of an assessmentinitial», it determines the establishment in which will be imprisoned the prisoners who have just been sentenced to more than 15 years of imprisonment for a list of offenses (crime, rape, act of barbarism, etc.).
As part of the evaluationend of sentence“, the CNE welcomes those sentenced to the longest sentences, including life imprisonment, when they have applied for conditional release. Each year, some 800 detainees are transferred to one of the CNE sites for six weeks of evaluation, “initial” Where “end of sentence“. At their end, a report is published on which the DAP will rely for the assignment decision, or a sentence enforcement judge for conditional release.
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“The operation of this center with four decentralized sites presents inconsistencies that call into question the very relevance of the tool“, estimates the CGLPL on the basis of visits in 2021 and testimonies. If it finds that the premises are largely “in excellent condition“, the authority raises several grievances. The deadlines for joining the CNE are “far superiorto the legal limits and the wait to get out, once the assessment is completed, is done in isolated neighborhoods and “misfits” in terms of health or activities, at the risk of causing a “new prison shock“.
Above all, this device would bemisunderstoodby prisoners at the end of their sentence and would cause aseries of breakupsparticularly in their access to work in detention and themaintaining links with the outside world“. These breaks can deter some prisoners from maintaining their request for sentence adjustment, “which contradicts the objective of combating recidivism and reintegrating” of the CNE, estimates the opinion.