in the health prison, in Paris, of job dating to promote return to employment and limit recurrence

About twenty companies came to meet around thirty detainees from this Parisian prison. Recruiters want to maximize their chances of finding good profiles. Inmates say they are shared on their ability to leave delinquency definitively.

Finding a job behind bars: this is what the health prison in Paris on Thursday, June 5, during a job dating session. About twenty companies come to meet around thirty detainees who think of after for possible recruitments. In four years, nearly 400 detainees participated, after being accompanied to prepare for the end of the sentence and the exit, anticipated or not. For the prison administration, the return to employment is the best bulwark against recurrence for these prisoners locked up for short sentences (less than two years). The detainees met are divided between their desire to turn the page and the fear of diving into delinquency.

John says he is not intimidated in the face of recruiters of around twenty companies seated in the gymnasium of the health prison. “I am not confident, because there are not many diplomas in the CV, but it’s okay”, he launches. To a representative of a large collective catering group, he lists his strengths. His problem is the holes in the CV, of which he holds several copies “It’s a long detour, prison. It’s the third time. We try not to dwell too much on the subject.” And this shadow which still hovers above his head and led him to prison: the taste of easy money. The 30 -year -old is supposed to be released in a year. “When you have a job, it’s stability”, he believes.

Road offenses, to drug law … All recruiters claim that the past of detainees is not an obstacle, especially in the economic context. “It could have been one of my brothers or one of my friends who made bullshit and who pays him today. There is no reason to turn their backs”, Esimes Hafida Toughrani Deputy Director of Eiffage Construction Habitat. “Today, we have a vocations crisis, she deplores. There are fewer and fewer young people attracted by the profession. We face such a shortage that we examine all the recruitment food. “

Two tables further, Kamel is looking for catering. “This lady who is there, we already know each other from the outside, he says. She was my employer during the six -year equivalent. We recognized ourselves and chance sometimes does things well. ” “For the record, I thought of him a few days ago”, notes Céline Da Silva, manager of an temporary agency.

“It is a chef de cuisine profile that worked very well. And these days, I’m struggling to find these profiles, and I say to myself: what does it get?”

Céline Da Silva, manager of an interim agency

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She says herself “moved” to see him again at the health prison. “Sad at first, but I am very happy”Add Céline Da Silva. Is she ready to hire her again? “Yes! He and even the others, everyone will have his chance”, she says.

His release from prison is close, finding a job “represents a second breath, a second life”, even if he “Can happen anything”, continues Kamel. “Sometimes, when you are used to this sawtooth course, that is to say working, working, working, then incarceration, and so on. Often, we say that even outside, we are not particularly safe compared to what we could do.” He swore him for his son: he will not return to prison a fourth time.