Following the statements of the US State Department regarding the conviction of Souleimane Raissouni to a sentence of five years in prison for a common law case, while the trial of Omar Radi is ongoing, the Interministerial Delegation for Human Rights and Mohamed Salah Tamek, General Delegate of the General Delegation for Prison Administration and Reintegration, reacted strongly.
Mobile phones are now banned in penitentiary institutions for security reasons.
The European Union (EU) has provided 1.5 million euros in funding to Morocco to upgrade the country’s prisons. This is the result of the Morocco-EU institutional twinning for support to strengthen the institutional capacities of the General Delegation for Prison Administration and Reintegration (DGAPR) .
Mohamed Salah Tamek, Delegate General for Prison Administration and Reintegration, was at the local prison of Tanger 2. This visit allowed him to inform the officials of the punitive measures underway to sanction all those involved in the recent escape of a dangerous prisoner.
Intimate visits for inmates should soon disappear due to lack of financial and logistical resources. But the prison administration is not against the idea of opening this door to private promoters.