Il ministro della giustizia francese vuole far pagare i prigionieri per il carcere
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/04/29/french-justice-minister-wants-to-make-prisoners-pay-for-their-time-behind-bars
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Il ministro della giustizia francese vuole far pagare i prigionieri per il carcere
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/04/29/french-justice-minister-wants-to-make-prisoners-pay-for-their-time-behind-bars
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>According to the French Ministry of Justice, running prisons costs the French state €4 billion per year.
Right… but imagine how much it saves compared to not running prions huh!
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This is a bad idea… I get that most people aren’t that big into rehabilitation attempts, and that they’d rather rage wank over the thought of harsher and harsher punishments, solution to the problem be damned!
But anyone who’s aware of the correlation between financial difficulty, and crime… can see just how god damn, fucking STUPID, it is to suggest charging criminals for their time in Jail.
Beg for more crime why don’t you, just get on your knees and scream about how much you want more reoffending criminals!
What is the plan regarding the people who actually have nothing? Like for example it’s sort of common for some of the homeless people to get sentenced from time to time for something minor just to get a roof over their head and some meals for a couple of months.
He want a lot of things
They’re looking for ways to squeeze money now that they have to increase their defense budgets.
In Denmark prisoners pay DKK 30 a day, not including food.
Why are there Europeans trying to recreate some of the US’s worst decisions back in their home countries…
Fun fact: up until 2023 the only prisoners required to pay for their accommodation and food in the U.K. were those who were found to be wrongfully convicted and later exonerated
This only works for people with a support system and a real perspective after jail, everyone else will get in debt and again end up in jail
What happens if they dont pay ? They go to jail inside the jail ?
Then, he will say prisoners who can’t pay must work for the government, in whatever jobs it provides. Et voilà, cheap “not slave” labour!
Uuuhhh
The better idea would be to reduce the amount of people in jail through alternate punishments such as combination of house arrest and public service. If someone who’d otherwise be in prosion for a minor crime could work part-time while cleaning the town 2-3 days a week, not only would it help to keep our towns clean, but it’d save the towns money for the cleaning.
Donald Trump ahhh move
Great idea, that’s a way to disuade them from getting thrown in jail.
That’s extremely stupid. If they refuse, what, forced labor, which is against human rights? This is the road to fascism.
I feel there’s an entire class of offenders who would we way better off with a gps ankle bracelet and a strict curfew or home confinement rules, combined with communitiy service for those out of a job.
Lots of low level offenders could be tracked and controlled in this way, while remaining a productive member of society.
# The announcement follows a series of violent attacks that targeted prisons and prison guards over a two-week period in April.
France’s Justice Minister Gérald Darmanin announced new plans to make prisoners contribute to their incarceration costs on Monday.
Speaking to broadcaster TF1, Darmanin said he planned to “amend the law” and pledged to back a bill on the issue tabled in the National Assembly in March.
According to the French Ministry of Justice, running prisons costs the French state €4 billion per year.
Darmanin justified his proposal by stating that “until 2003, prisoners contributed to the cost of their incarceration” and “just as there is a fixed hospital charge, there was a fixed prison attendance charge”.
His announcement follows a series of violent attacks which targeted prisons and prison guards across France over a two-week period in April.
Since then, close to 200 investigators have been working to track down the culprits, and [**25 suspects were detained**](https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/04/28/french-police-detain-25-suspects-in-prison-attacks-investigation) by law enforcement officers in locations across the country on Monday.
A group which calls itself the “defence of the rights of French prisoners” (défense des droits des prisonniers français, or DDPF) has claimed responsibility for the attacks.
The DDPF has targeted prisons and prison officers with videos and threats posted on its Telegram channel.
According to the French government, the prison attacks were part of a coordinated effort and came in response to a national crackdown on drug trafficking that has been underway since February.
As part of this drive, the government plans to [**transfer 200 of the country’s most dangerous drug traffickers**](https://www.euronews.com/2025/03/07/france-to-send-200-drug-traffickers-to-completely-hermetic-prisons) to two high-security prisons by October.
As well as his TV interview, the Justice Minister shared open letter on X on Monday expressing his “total determination“ to enable prison officers to “work better, in total security”.
“The absolutely unacceptable violence and threats committed against you [prison officers] and prisons in recent days have rightly shocked you”, he wrote, going on to list a range of measures meant to ensure guards’ anonymity.
France has received multiple condemnations from the European Court of Human Rights in relation to poor prison conditions.
The latest figures for the inmate population in France, which were released on 1 April, reveal that 81,600 people are currently serving time behind bars. This is far above the total number of prison places France officially provides, which stands at 62,363.