Prisons : money, air, life
There are now some 60,000 incarcerated persons in France -- i.e. 50 % more than in 1983. The rise in the prison population corresponds only too well to a general tendency in Europe: criminalization of poverty, a policy that in itself leads to a growing pauperization of the prison milieu. The latter phenomenon hits the inmates, who are confronted with alarming survival conditions (lack of hygiene, poorly balanced nutrition, and grimy, dilapidated buildings).