Decarcerate

Can you tell where the nearest prison is? How many people are locked in there? If they are men, women or children? Is their detention time weeks or years? Prison is a little-spoken and unfamiliar place, a place most of us will never enter. When we criticize systematic imprisonment, we often find ourselves retorted: "What more can you offer? Sylvain Lhuissier demonstrates with this work that another sanction is possible. Because the objective here is not to point out a culprit, but to understand why nothing changes government after government; to identify how each actor, from one end of the chain to the other, participates in keeping the system in place; but above all to question how all of us, citizens, represent both a part of the responsibility and a possible lever for change. Sylvain Lhuissier suggests emptying prisons instead of building new ones, reinventing sentences rather than restoring dilapidated cells. It has long been known that prison is an ineffective solution to crime, but when it largely applies to thousands of people who do not fall into the category of criminals, shouldn't we collectively rethink our copy? “And if, for once, instead of looking away, we took the measure of this social issue and what it says about our way of living together? »