The man with a black hat is seated on a bad white plastic chair. She scraped the ground when he shifts to open, with one hand, the little fridge facing him. On the other, he holds his plate, it’s time for lunch. Jean-Luc Reichmann presents the program Les Twelve Coups de Midi, until the pub begins. The bearded man does not bother to cut the sound of the TV but he turns to the phone that films and broadcasts live video on Tiktok. He gets closer. In a dragging voice, he responds to comments and soliloquy, before disconnecting.
This scene which takes place in a prison cell transpires boredom. It shows ways to kill it: television, or mobile phones, omnipresent even if prohibited. The video does not allow to know if the detainee is alone in his cell, as is the rule in the establishments for pain (who receive persons sentenced to at least two years of imprisonment), or if it shares it – it is the standard in remand homes, where people waiting for judgment or condemned to short sorrows are detained.
It is in this category of establishments that CARC overpopulation is concentrated
