GIP, La Cause du peuple, June 7th, 1971

Courtesy of: GIP Archives / IMEC, Caen

GIP, La Cause du peuple, June 7th, 1971.

“You are already here. At the prison. Fleury-Merogis Prison. The model prison: alone 23/24”. 1970s French mega-prisons were built next to new housing projects, as part of an urban development plan that relegated poor and immigrant people to “banlieues”. The prisons soon filled with local people.