US EditionUltra-Secure Prison: Why Prisoners Rebel
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The prisoners who had tried to inundate their cells denounce conditions of detention and speak "unworthy" to "break them psychologically".
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The high-security prison in Vendin-le-Vieil (Pas-de-Calais), where 88 drug traffickers have been incarcerated since July, was the scene of voluntary flooding by detainees last week. On Monday, a part of them began a hunger strike, to denounce the conditions imposed on their families.
How far will the inmates of the high-security area of Vendin-le-Vieil prison go? A few days after voluntarily flooding the courtyards of the building, some started a hunger strike on Monday, September 1st. These drug traffickers, among the most dangerous in the metropolis, have been transferred to the establishment since the end of July. They protest against their conditions of detention, but also those imposed on their families during visits. (…
"Twenty-three" people ask for better conditions of detention. "Our families pay the high price", deplores a communiqué signed by the "super cartel of Vendin-le-Vieil" and published this Monday, September 1.
The episode comes after a first rebel movement of prisoners last week, during which several of them caused flooding on the courtyard.
Several incidents marked the last days of this high-security prison in Pas-de-Calais, dedicated to the most dangerous detainees in France, and in particular to drug traffickers.
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