OPINIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE FRENCH CGLPL It should be concerned with the practical difficulties of persons, when the transition from full detention to partial release causes them. 5/ Treatment constitutes an important shortcoming of partial release as it currently functions. Concerning health conditions and treatment to be dispensed for pathologies, those on partial release no longer have access to the arrangements covering prisons. They therefore have to find the necessary resources (often in a town where they have no knowledge of anything). They need social-security protection: certain institutions, but not the majority, have made agreements with the social-security system to accelerate the necessary applications.79 They also need local health-care services: some institutions have made agreements with health centres (municipal, for example); but not all. Treatment centres do not accept those on partial release because they consider that they are not residents of the municipality. Concerning obligations for treatment imposed by magistrates (notably in cases of addiction), the specialised centres are often overloaded and the waiting times are in weeks or months. Because partial release does not exceed several months, the obligations are not wholly, or only partly, actually followed. 6/ The access to work or training, and especially to a job when one has to be found, is made difficult for several reasons. The primary difficulty is that certain open prisons or wings may be far removed from employment pools, even more so because as we know, over the last 25  years, new prisons have been built outside towns. Consequently, a means of transport must be found, which may be distant and scarce. One institution had planned “two wheeler” rental to resolve this difficulty: it had to abandon it due to lack of resources; its residents walk several kilometres in all weathers to reach their work, and to come back. These distances are difficult to reconcile with the hours imposed. A prisoner who is “seeking work” states that he is entitled to go out from 9 a.m. to 12 a.m. “I have an hour’s journey to get home, collect my documents, telephone or travel to companies, then I have to be back at midday”. The choice of establishing open prisons or wings should always favour On this point, see the 2011 annual report of the Contrôleur général des lieux de privation de liberté, chapter 3, “Access to social rights for prisoners”. 79 134