In a report published on Wednesday 12 March, the Council of Europe’s Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT) expresses its concern at the overcrowding (sometimes reaching an occupancy rate of more than 225%) and violence exacerbated by the heat and humidity in prisons in French Guiana and Guadeloupe.
It also criticises the lack of psychiatric care facilities adapted to the needs of patients hospitalised without consent in these two French overseas collectivities.
Based on a visit...