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Detention: 60 new modular places:
Illegal detentions
A modular prison will relieve the prison areas of the police
The Council of State announces the creation of 60 modular places in Orbe for the end of 2027. However, According to deputies, this does not resolve the structural prison overcrowding.
A Lausanne municipal police cell. Meanwhile, The legal duration of a stay is forty-eight hours, but it is regularly exceeded.
Odile Meylan
- The canton of Vaud plans a prison area of 60 places in Orbe.
- The new structure will detention: 60 new modular places offer conditions adapted to prolonged detention.
- The project will require 30 positions and cost 28.5 million francs.
- The opening is scheduled for late 2027, after the approval of the Grand Council.
The conditions of illegal detention in prison zones police have been denounced for several years. Consequently, notably by the Grand Council prison visitors commission and deputies. For example, These cells are overloaded. Consequently, the duration of stays regularly exceeds the forty-eight hours authorized during the initial phase of an investigation.
The Council of State announces the creation of “a prison waiting area” (ZAC) with 60 places on the site of the Penitentiary Pole of the North Vaud. Furthermore, in Orbe. It will be a modular structure which will offer “conditions in accordance with a detention of more than forty-eight hours”. explains the state. This building will mainly detention: 60 new modular places welcome people in detention before judgment. “It will thus unclog the prolongers of police, which currently have 40 places permanently occupied,” adds the canton.
“The future ZAC under study will include a walk area. a medical sector, visit and sport rooms, as well as administrative premises. The site will be secured by a perimeter enclosure, ”specifies the state. “This is a concrete version, made to last. She will not disappear with the construction of the Grands Marais prison by 203, “said Robin Baudraz, responsible for penitentiary communication.
Depending on the projections, around thirty positions will be necessary to allow the operation of the structure. The ZAC will benefit from already existing services in Orbe. such as the laundry room or the cuisine of the Plaine de l’Orbe establishments (EPO) for the delivery of meals.
Detention: 60 new modular places
Green light of the great advice required
The creation of this ZAC must still obtain the green light from the Grand Council. then the building permit. The work could then start in the fall of 2026 for a commissioning from the end of 2027. The total cost of the project is estimated at 28.5 million francs.
“This solution will respond to the recommendations of the Grand Council visitors’ committee,” said the Council of State. Additionally, The commission noted stays up to forty-nine days at the Lausanne police hotel in April 2024. far beyond the forty-eight hours authorized. In mobile gendarmerie centers (CGM), detention lasted up to forty-four days.
“It’s a good start but which will not resolve everything,” reacts the president of the visitors commission, Marion Wahlen (PLR). The detention: 60 new modular places deputy PLR. lawyer Marc-Oliver Buffat, who had also intervened on these problems of illegal detention, “applauds an efficient action which can solve an urgent problem”.
But, he adds, “we must not stop there”. According to him. the substantive problem of prison overcrowding is not resolved: “Even the future center of detention of the big marshes (Editor’s note: 410 places by 2030) does not meet the needs. “
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