Preventive Legal Action Against Inhumane Conditions of Detention: Current Status and Outlook 

The legislature has established a preventive remedy available to individuals incarcerated in correctional facilities—whether on remand or serving a sentence—to put an end to the undignified conditions of detention they are subjected to. This remedy, established by Law No. 2021-403 of April 8, 2021, is in addition to the remedies that can be sought before an administrative judge, which serve different purposes.
The causes of the undignified prison conditions and the unsanitary state of certain facilities continue to be denounced.
This symposium provides an opportunity to revisit the context surrounding the creation of this legal remedy and to take stock of its implementation one and a half years after the provisions establishing it came into force.