The Villa Gillet
Founded in 1987, the Villa Gillet welcomes in Lyon fiction and non-fiction writers, artists and scholars from over the world to ponder issues relevant to our ever shiflting world. The Villa Gillet makes the work of exciting contemporary thinkers accessible to the largest audience possible, by organizing events during the year, and during its festivals : the International Forum on the Novel — happening every year in May since 2007— co-organized with "Le Monde", Walls and Bridges, a ten-day series of events that happened from 2011 to 2013 and Mode d'emploi : un festival des idées — a festival of public debates — initiated in 2012.
Criminalization and incarceration: a system to be reevaluated?
Place Joannès Ambre
Lyon 4ème
Meeting organized with the Théâtre de la Croix-Rousse and the Lyon Opera as part of the cycle "Les causes communes. Justice/Injustice"
The Minister of Justice, Christiane Taubira, recently stirred up trouble when she made decreasing the prison population one of her priorities. The number of detainees in France has reached record highs and this overpopulation, which stems directly from ten years of increasingly harsh criminal justice policies, has caused prison conditions to deteriorate. Associations and justice-system professionals are concerned about post-incarceration difficulties with reinsertion. Can we put an end to the detention-in-all-cases approach? Should we rethink punishment, which is required by the rule of law, by dissociating it from imprisonment? Or should we maintain it, but reform it?
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