Detention conditions concerning a girl in a prison for minors "(…) I have been in prison since … 2016. From …/01/16 to …/06/16 I was at V.and since …/06/16 I have been detained at the D prison for minors. At V. (at the women's remand prison) I already wanted to write to you to protest certain points with regard to our detention conditions ... well now that I am no longer there it is too late. At the prison for minors it is already better than at V. (in terms of hygiene, etc) but there are a few troubling issues. When we arrive, they hand out (to us girls) new arrivals' clothing as they do everywhere, but which have been designed for boys, so we start out wearing boys' clothes, which, to boot, will also be too big for us, so it would be better if we had clothes for girls. Then they hand out mediocre sanitary towels (sodexo) and at the canteen you can only buy tampons, so for girls who do not use tampons and for whom the sodexo towels are not the right ones for our periods, it would be good if we could buy better sanitary towels (for me personally, the sodexo sanitary towels are uncomfortable and too thick). We are unable to buy fans (whereas at V we could) and in the cells the heat is unbearable. For asthmatics like me, the heat is stifling and often sets off an asthma attack – including quite a bad one yesterday evening; so it would be good to be able to buy them too. Well, I think that is everything. Have a good week. Yours sincerely. (… ] Oh yes, my things (1 box + 1 suitcase) are still at V., during my transfer I was able to bring 1 box as we were travelling by plane. I still have not received the rest of my things, when they contain toiletries, clothes, shoes, handbag + purse, etc. and the captain at D told me that maybe I will not get it back when I would like to have it back and I was not the one who opted for this transfer, but it was the judge who ordered it. Are you able to do something? " Maintaining family ties in detention "Dear Sir or Madam, Please I am writing this letter to you as I feel completely desperate. So that you understand my letter clearly, I will explain my problem to you. For several months I have been asking to be transferred to a prison in Paris as my family does not have the means to pay for a return trip by high-speed train. My family is very poor. I miss them very much and my family is unable to come to visit me in the visiting rooms. My transfer file is complete but I do not know why I have not been transferred. I am not asking you for freedom, just for the possibility of being transferred to a prison in Paris, so that my family can come and visit me. I very much hope that you will be able to answer my letter. I do not know how else to thank you. Thank you so much in advance. (…)". The rehabilitation tools in detention "Dear Sir or Madam, I am writing to you because I have a wish that I would like to share with you. I would like to be able to have Internet in the cells to keep in touch with my family via Skype or another site, we could also use it for job-hunting and for learning about religion for those who want to, in order to practise our religion as best we can. I would also like a telephone in the cell, this would help to reduce violence in prison in the knowledge that if we are punished, the telephone would be taken away during the punishment. My final wish would be for teachers to be able to each us Arabic so that I can better understand the Koran and not misinterpret it. Yours sincerely. " 126