New Caledonia: Justice Orders Emergency Measures Against Unworthy Conditions of Detention

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The Camp-Est, the main prison in the archipelago, located in Nouméa, several times pinned by the general controller of places of deprivation of liberty, had already been sentenced in 2023 for failure to perform work ordered by the courts.

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Referred to by 50 detainees, the judge for interim measures on Tuesday found that the overcrowding and unsanitary nature of the Camp-Est prison in Nouméa "constitutes a serious and manifestly illegal violation of the right not to be subjected to inhuman or degrading treatment".

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Fifty inmates of the Nouméa prison were successful before the judge for interim measures, who ordered the administration to improve without delay conditions deemed "unworthy". Overpopulation, promiscuity, harmful: the case highlights the structural crisis of the Caledonian prison system.