Prison workers assemble in protest after setting fire to objects outside of a detention center in Orleans on June 18, 2013. <\/p>\n
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France\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s prison guards have gathered in front of more than 100 jails in protest against overcrowding and safety concerns at the country\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s correctional facilities.\n<\/p>\n
The action took place on Tuesday after official figures revealed that on June 1 a record number of nearly 68,000 inmates were incarcerated, giving a overcrowding rate of 19 percent.\n<\/p>\n
The Ufap-Unsa prison guards union, whose members are banned from striking, said the prison staff gathered in front of \u00c5\u201cmore than 110 establishments including detention centers, low-security as well as high-security prisons.\n<\/p>\n
They blocked deliveries and set fire to tires, wooden pallets and other objects.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
Ahead of the rally, union Secretary General Stephane Barraut said, \u00c5\u201cThis is a shot across the bows, to make the powers be aware of the urgency of this situation.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\u00c5\u201cThis way, people will say to themselves, \u00cb\u0153We\u00e2\u201e\u00a2re really going to have to deal with the penitentiary system’,\u201d added Barraut.\n<\/p>\n
On June 14, a prison supervisor was taken hostage by an inmate in a high-security prison at Arles in southern France. The incident ended after a few hours when the prisoner convicted of murder gave himself up.\n<\/p>\n
Just a day earlier, prison staff had assembled outside a prison in Fresnes, near Paris to protest against a drastic increase in violence directed towards guards by inmates.\n<\/p>\n
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