A young supervisor trainee aged 20 was attacked with a knife by an inmate on Tuesday in the Lyon-Corbas prison. The latter struck him first in the neck while the supervisor was from behind, then two others in the face, not far from the eyes. The injured young woman was able to get out of the cell, helped by colleagues, as well as detainees. She was immediately transported to the emergency room where she was operated on. His days are not in danger. The detainee, who was serving an 18-month sentence at the Lyon remand center, was unhappy to see a new prisoner arriving in his cell.
For the prison warden unions, this attack again poses the question of the security of officers in the face of increasingly armed prisoners. "There are a lot of projections coming from outside. You have things like knives, drugs, weapons that go over the walls and end up in detention. It is a real scourge in this We cannot count indefinitely on the goodwill of the prisoners who will help us or not ", warns a member of the FO prison union on Europe 1.
The security of prison guards questioned
The latter deplores the lack of staff among prison guards in recent years: "At the opening 10 years ago, in this establishment, there were two guards on a floor like that, today there are none has more than one. Indeed, it would take more people. "
The supervisors are also asking for more equipment: "What is needed is that we have equipment, that we fight against weapons that can return to detention, that we have colleagues nearby to help us. " Supervisors of the Lyon-Corbas remand center blocked the entrance to the prison for several hours on Wednesday morning, before a meeting with the management of the remand center was organized.