Recommendations of 30th April 20097 concerning the Nice remand prison The Nice remand prison was visited by four inspectors from the contrôle général des lieux de privation de liberté (CGLPL) from Wednesday 12th to Friday 14th November, 2008. The findings from this visit gave rise to an initial report submitted to the director of the institution on 8th December, 2008. The director made his views known concerning this report in a letter dated 26th December, 2008. The full report on the visit was then submitted to the Minister of Justice for his observations on 19th January, 2009. On the same date, the report was also submitted to the Minister for Health, Youth, Associations and Sport for any possible observations on his behalf. The Minister of Justice submitted his observations, which have been added to the report as an appendix, in a letter dated 12th March, 2009. The Minister for Health and Sports has not provided any observations. Following this procedure, and in accordance with article 10 of the law n°2007-1545 of 30th October 2007, the Contrôleur général has decided to make the following recommendations public: 1/ Despite the work that has been carried out, the Nice remand prison is dilapidated and many of its installations, in particular those concerning the electricity supply and the fresh and soiled water distribution, do not comply with basic requirements for habitation. These deficiencies arise from the fact that there has been a longstanding project for the construction of a new institution in the Plaine du Var, to the west of the Nice urban area. The simple existence of this project has been a recurrent reason to refuse any significant request for investment from the current prison, situated in the centre of Nice. The question of any such reconstruction on the current site or of relocating elsewhere currently appears not to be completely decided. It is natural that those who control the public purse should ensure that the State’s money and other resources are well used and that unnecessary expense be avoided – the contrôle général is sensitive 7 Published in the Journal Officiel de la République française n°0109 of 12th May 2009, text n°63. 17