Making prisoners pay for their detention: an unworthy and populist proposal from Gérald Darmanin

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Gérald Darmanin has a certain talent for making people talk about him. Since becoming Minister of Justice, a position that, on paper, offers less media coverage than his previous position as Minister of the Interior, the former Sarkoboy has done everything he can to stay in the media spotlight. His latest find, which he unleashed on Monday evening on TF1's 8 p.m. news and which is obviously causing a stir: reintroducing "detention fees" more than twenty years after they were abolished in 2003 .

The Minister of Justice presented this measure as a way of making prisoners contribute to the cost to the State of places of detention (4 billion euros per year), and he promised prison officers – this is clever then that