You are here:Home-Margot Hemmerich
Margot Hemmerich

About Margot Hemmerich

So far Margot Hemmerich has created 2 news.

“With the pandemic, it was a prison within a prison”

By |2023-04-04T02:52:12+01:00December 14th, 2021|Tags: , , , |

Aurélie, 27, spent several years in prison. Maxime, 35, was an inmate in the Paris region, where the overcrowding rate is 160%. Like 13,000 other prisoners, he got out thanks to early-release measures enacted between March and May 2020. They told us their stories. 

Comments Off on “With the pandemic, it was a prison within a prison”

France: The pandemic has exposed a dysfunctional prison system

By |2023-04-04T02:54:23+01:00December 13th, 2021|Tags: , , , |

While the poor state of French prisons led many to fear a serious health crisis in the wake of Covid-19, the worst of those fears have not materialised. However, the drastic lockdown measures have done nothing to benefit the mental health of detainees. Nor have they led to any serious reevaluation of the system itself.

Comments Off on France: The pandemic has exposed a dysfunctional prison system
Go to Top