According to an administrative document relayed on Twitter, the inmates of a prison in Guadeloupe would be offered sentence arrangements if they agree to be vaccinated against Covid-19.
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The Ministry of Justice tells us, however, that this is "a very local initiative" which will no longer be used and that vaccination cannot be the only criterion taken into account in the decision of the judge responsible for the enforcement of sentences. .
Are detainees who have not been vaccinated against Covid-19 in a prison in Guadeloupe encouraged to take the plunge in exchange for very concrete benefits, such as a reduced sentence?
This is supported by several Internet users on Twitter, one of them stating in particular: "Vaccination blackmail in prison: if you vaccinate yourself, your certificate will be taken into account in the files of requests for permission, improvement of sentence and reduction of additional sentence !!!
IGNOBLE, they are limitless [and] coasting !!
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🔴💉Vaccination sample in prison👿👿
If you vaccinate yourself, your certificate will be taken into account in the files of requests for permission, adjustment of sentence and reduction of additional sentence !!!
IGNOBLE they are limitless in freewheeling !! @ DIVIZIO1 @autrement_votre pic.twitter.com/yM9tJDmfPE
- Association Victimes Covid-19 France 🇫🇷 (@AssoCovid) August 15, 2021
As proof, this Twitter user relays the photo of a paper "vaccination request", on which detainees would be asked to indicate their identity and their prison and cell number, as well as their vaccination status ( "I want to be vaccinated", "I do not want to be vaccinated", "I have already been vaccinated").
“In agreement with the ARS [Regional Health Agency] Guadeloupe, the Sanitary Unit of the Baie-Mahault penitentiary center offers all people in detention vaccination against the Covid-19 virus.
[…] The vaccination certificate will be taken into account in the files of requests for permission, adjustment of sentence and the granting of RPS [sentence reductions] ”, we can read in this document in particular.
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, the ARS Guadeloupe confirms that it "coordinates with the health service of establishments vaccination", but indicates "not to be aware" of "the measure [linked to the certificate]".
For its part, the Ministry of Justice confirms that "this document did circulate within the Baie-Mahault penitentiary center", while specifying: "There was no instruction from the prison administration in this regard. meaning: this is a very local initiative by this penitentiary center and its care unit, taken as part of the organization of its vaccination campaign, in the context of an acute health crisis.
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The Chancellery, which deplores "the awkwardness of the wording of the document", suggesting that vaccination is the only criterion taken into account by the judge of application of sentences to decide, also claims to have "ensured that it does not 'there was no other similar initiative elsewhere in the territory' and 'that this document will no longer be used'.
Vaccination cannot be "the only element" taken into account by the judge
And the Ministry of Justice to recall the legal framework for any measure of freedom for detainees: "Only a sentence enforcement judge can grant a reduction or an adjustment of sentence, or a leave of absence, and that on the basis of criteria set by law.
He has a sovereign power of appreciation and takes into account the elements brought to his knowledge: the fact, for a prisoner, of having been vaccinated is an element which the judge will perhaps take into account, but among many others, it cannot be the only or determining element in its decision, hence the awkwardness of this document.
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