This year, 1,300 people took their general education certificate (CFG) at the Clermont-Ferrand Academy. “Among them, sixty registered as free candidates in places of detention, in a reinforced educational center or in a closed educational center. Here six were registered, ”says Jean-Marc Vincent, professor at the Montluçon remand center.
And of the six, all passed with flying colors. The icing on the cake, like last year, one of the inmates got the best grade from the Academy. Namely 377 out of 400.
At the Montluçon remand center (Allier), reading as a way to escape
Rediscover the “pleasure of learning”
“Every year, we have between six and nine candidates for the CFG”, specifies Nadine Wenzel, head of the establishment, who is delighted with this success. “Any incarcerated person can benefit from school education, at all levels [de l’apprentissage du français à la licence via des cours par correspondance, NDLR]. »
“We try to encourage prisoners to come to school, which allows them to have an opening on culture, science… They can also participate in a newspaper, take courses in the highway code. »
Nadine Wenzel (head of school)
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Enough to enable them to acquire new skills and learning that may be useful to them when they leave prison and for their professional future. Or even, for some, to continue their studies.
“Some incarcerated people are angry with the school, with the institution. There, they rediscover the pleasure of learning. Here, it is the valuation of what has been learned that counts, which changes their vision of learning, ”underlines Muriel Lallemand, deputy director of the penitentiary service for integration and probation.
Behind the doors of the Montluçon remand center (Allier): three prison guards testify
Laura Morel
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