2. Actions taken in response to less recent Recommendations and Opinions 2.1 Actions taken in response to the urgent recommendations 17th October 2013 concerning the young offenders’ institutions Hendaye and Pionsat, and the recommendations 1st December 2010, concerning the young offenders’ institutions Beauvais, Sainte-Gauburge, Fragny and L’Hôpital-le-Grand of of of of The observations concerning the two young offenders’ institutions of Hendaye and Pionsat expressed in the Annual Report for 2013 remain entirely relevant. These two institutions were inspected in September and August 2013 respectively. The CEF of Hendaye is not to be moved in spite of the risks to which minors are exposed, since they have to use a dangerous road prohibited to pedestrians and a prohibited railway crossing. The CEF of Pionsat was characterised by the complete absence of any educational project. In her letter of 8th November 2013, the Minister of Justice announced that the procedure for bringing the institution’s educational project back up to standard would be completed at the end of the first quarter of 2014, before being validated by the administration of the judicial youth protection service, which would also examine the pedagogical and educational content of the measures put in place for minors and, on the other hand, she also stated that in-service training would be strengthened for supervisory staff, before it conducted an inspection of the operation of the institution. The four young offenders’ institutions of Beauvais, Sainte-Gauburge, Fragny and L’Hôpital-le-Grand, with regard to which recommendations were made on 1st December 2010, were inspected for a second time: Beauvais in November 2011, Sainte-Gauburge in January 2014, Fragny and L’Hôpital-Le-Grand in March 2014. After inspection, the case of the young offenders’ institution of Frangy was referred to the Minister of Justice on 29th April 2014, since serious breaches were once again ascertained. The letter recommended that an inspection should be conducted immediately by the judicial youth protection service. The Judicial Youth Protection Service conducted an inspection on 5th June 2014. According to the information received, the prefect of Saône-et-Loire issued an order to close the young offenders’ institution of Fragny for a period of three months as of 3rd October 2014. The Contrôleur général des lieux de privation de liberté raised questions with regard to the number of closures of young offenders’ institutions in the course of the year. The visits to young offenders’ institutions conducted in the course of the year 201413 have led to the ascertainment of recurrent difficulties: the 13 Sainte-Gauburge (Orne) in January; Fragny (Saône-et-Loire) and Hôpital-le-Grand (Loire) in March: Epinay-surSeine (Seine-Saint-Denis) in April; Gévezé (Ille-et-Vilaine) in June; Saint-Denis-le-Thiboult (Seine-Maritime) in August; Saint-Pierre-du-Mont (Landes) in September; La Chapelle Saint-Mesmin (Loiret) at the end of September and beginning of October; and Savigny-sur-Orge (Essone) in December. 26