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“They knocked on my door, and I learned that I could vote even in prison,” says Dylan, detained at Fleury-Mérogis. In the largest remand prison in Europe, door-to-door and discussions were organized, before the presidential election, to raise awareness of the vote. In a small room, voting booth, ballot box and ballots are installed as in a perfectly normal polling station. Only false note, the police. “I think what they did is good because if it was in our cell, there wouldn’t have been any charm, there wouldn’t have been the same movement as in the outside, says Youssef, detained in the remand center. They make us feel like we’re outside without being outside and that’s good, I think that’s good. »
“A detainee is a citizen during his time in prison, and also when he leaves the prison”, insists the director of the remand center, Franck Linares, specifying that it is “very rare” that detainees receive a denial of civil rights. This postal voting process was inaugurated in France during the 2019 European election, where around sixty people took part. Today they are one hundred and thirty-three. If the prison administration “assumes its mission of custody”, it “also claims its mission of integration and reintegration” by preventing the prison from being “a dead time”, explains the director.