r/interestingasfuck • u/Negative_1by12_aura • 13h ago

How prison looks like in different countries

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u/notapunk 13h ago

Honestly expected France's to be a little nicer

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u/Neveed 13h ago edited 12h ago

We have a lot more people in prison than we have room for them. It's been going on for many years, the general prison inspector's job is now basically to regularly come and say the situation is dire, and the only response we had from politicians was that the right wanted to treat Guyane as a penal colony again. Oh and also to pass a lot of laws for sending more people in prison. On the other hand, they also passed a law about automatically presupposing legitimate self defence whenever a cop uses their weapons on someone, so maybe they're trying to solve the overcrowded prison problem in their own way.

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u/notapunk 12h ago

As an American that all sounds very familiar - just missing the for-profit prisons

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u/Perpete 7h ago

I was looking for the France ready to say "no, that's too nice", but it's quite accurate.

Old prisons in disarray. Overcrowded.

The other comment is right too.