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The program obtained exceptional authorization to share the lives...

The subject concerns a form of delinquency often overshadowed by that of boys.

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Key facts

  • The program obtained exceptional authorization to share the lives of these young girls, placed in this facility in the Dordogne. For them, the stakes…
  • The subject concerns a form of delinquency often overshadowed by that of boys. The report describes a race against time, undertaken so that these…
  • Placed by court order, they are staking their future in a closed setting. After six months, a magistrate will decide whether or not to place them in detention.

The program obtained exceptional authorization to share the lives of these young girls, placed in this facility in the Dordogne. For them, the stakes are immediate: to avoid relapsing and being incarcerated.

The subject concerns a form of delinquency often overshadowed by that of boys. The report describes a race against time, undertaken so that these teenage girls do not fall back into the acts that brought them before the justice system.

Placed by court order, they are staking their future in a closed setting. After six months, a magistrate will decide whether or not to place them in detention.

In this center, every action counts. Running away and refusals to take part in activities, as well as progress and good academic results, are recorded by the educators.

These elements are transmitted to the magistrate responsible for ruling at the end of the six-month period. Daily monitoring thus directly informs the judicial decision.

Clara, 15, is accused of complicity in attempted murder, France Info also reports.

At a sanction hearing before the juvenile court, a teenage girl must try to convince the justice system that she can turn the page on acts of receiving stolen goods and drug trafficking. The report does not explicitly link this hearing to Sonia or to Clara.

No individual outcome is indicated in the available information. The report ends on the placement mechanism and on the decision the magistrate will have to render at the end of the six months.

Dig deeper

What is the Dordogne?

A department in southwestern France, where the closed facility that houses these adolescent girls placed by the justice system is located.

What does it mean to be placed by a court decision?

A minor is entrusted to an educational facility by order of a magistrate, instead of being immediately incarcerated.

What is the juvenile court?

A specialized French court that tries minors and may impose sanctions, a placement, or a referral to detention.

What does the magistrate decide after six months?

He rules, on the basis of the educators’ daily monitoring, on continued placement outside detention or incarceration.

Why is the issue immediate for these adolescent girls?

They must avoid falling back into the acts that brought them before the justice system, or face incarceration.

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