The objective of this new literary prize is, according to Roselyne Bachelot, to bring together "two worlds wrongly considered as distant".
A "Goncourt detainees" was launched on Monday by the Ministers of Culture and Justice, Éric Dupond-Moretti, at the Aix-Luynes remand center in the Bouches-du-Rhône.
“The fifteen works selected by the Goncourt Academy will be proposed for deliberation and to the votes of people detained in 30 penitentiary establishments who have applied.
On December 15, the winner will be announced,” explained Roselyne Bachelot.
The Minister also recalled "the intimate link" between certain "masterpieces of literature and the drama of detention".
She cited in particular the writer Jean Genet, imprisoned among other things for having stolen books.
The Goncourt Academy "is delighted"
“It is an ambitious project” which “aims to make prisoners interested in literature” to better “reintegrate them into the social body”, completed the Keeper of the Seals.
"The Goncourt Academy is delighted to be able to join this project, modeled on the Goncourt des Lycéens which has existed since 1988", for his part welcomed its secretary general, Philippe Claudel.
The National Book Center specified that it would finance “the purchase of books” and “will also ensure their delivery” to detention centers.
Detainees are among the audiences targeted by this public establishment, which had financed 20 “project leaders” in favor of reading in 2021.
Promoting culture in prison
During their trip to Luynes, the two ministers also signed a new protocol to promote culture in prison.
The first was signed in 1986 by Robert Badinter and Jack Lang, and the last dated back to 2009. to express artistically", explained Roselyne Bachelot.
"It strives to promote the cultural offer for minors, reaffirms the importance of cultural training for prison staff, workers and detainees," she added.
“It also poses the desire to forge closer links between the inside and the outside and inscribes the need to equip all prison establishments with spaces adapted to cultural practices:
For Éric Dupond-Moretti, “culture is a vector of personal enhancement, of school, professional and social integration.
It can be considered as an element that gives meaning to the sentence from a recidivism prevention perspective”.
In addition, “participation in cultural activities in prison, involvement in reading and writing in particular” can, together with good behavior in detention, also promote sentence reductions.
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