“The penitentiary in Nice is very outdated, remaining the only dark spot in the prison system of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region since many facilities there have been rehabilitated and others created (Avignon, Toulon,…).
Closer to Nice, the Grasse prison is a completely satisfactory establishment, both in terms of geographic location and operation.” Jacques Peyrat thus advocates, as it is his profession, for his city and his neighborhood in order to “harmonize penal policy in the region.”
Of course, projects especially in the Var Plain had been considered, but it remains that to this date, nothing is “finalized” and that the building becomes more outdated each day as no renovation or improvement will be provided while waiting for a new project.
“Madame the Minister of Justice in her speech of June 22, 2007, through which she presents the major directions of the vast justice reform project she intends to lead, announced the imminent creation of an independent controller of places of deprivation of liberty. I welcome the creation of this role whose soon-to-be-appointed holder will be able to assess the situation at the Nice detention center and, perhaps, subscribe to my wish to see a solution emerge quickly. I will obviously request an audience after meeting the new Keeper of the Seals.” The Senator Mayor of Nice is adamant and freed from the worries of a nearly finalized tramway, he will focus on this new challenging issue a few months from a municipal election in which he seems almost certain to participate, and a new prison could be an additional asset up the sleeve of the lawyer from Nice.
As Coluche said: “Politicians prefer to put money in prisons than in schools because at school they are sure not to return, but in prison….”
