There were also allegations of insults, sometimes racist or homophobic, and threats made with weapons, a CPT report based on a December 2019 mission found. “Generally speaking, the CPT is extremely concerned about the material conditions of detention in some of the police stations visited,” a Council statement said. Sometimes prisoners requiring psychiatric care were kept in prison because of a lack of specially adapted hospital units, the report found. During their mission the CPT delegates visited 12 police stations and four prisons, as well as one psychiatric unit. Prison facilities had been extended, and France had also been exploring alternatives to prison sentences as punishment for offenders.

Source: The Local June 24, 2021 10:07 UTC