The jail of disgrace, of Michel Niaussat.
Foreword of François-Régis Hutin. Edition Desclée de
Brouwer, 1998
Disrupting the generaly accepted ideas, this book is a truly defence against our prison system. Michel Niaussat, chaplain of the Mans jail''s during 20 years, we divulge the sad reality of life conditions for the inmate, unchanged since two century. He denounces it with strong and determination. He invits us to take place of first rank of one play, untitled " The jail of disgrace". Appaling human reality of human rights flout.
Alas, he'' isn''t a question of one play in three-act divulging his caracters colorful and trigger the giggling in the room. Alas, he is question only of one "story of human life" in the France "citizen" who shout high and strong "Liberty, equality, fraternity".
Oh, my God! This man is crasy ! Why shout so strong to our ears that she can eard ? Why awake to our consciousness for the "subhuman", of "without name", then that we sleep so good ? Because, the priest Michel Niaussat, isn''t a egoism who done the withhold information, him. He want that we''ll know that the French state do the opposite of those that it should done for rehabilitate, reinsert those who the justice condamn to be private of liberty. Because the priest Michel Niaussat, isn''t against the jail. There are the words for tell that :"This punishment are necessary for that the country don''t be abandon to the anarchy and to untidiness. Only, he adds for that our heart be reasonable, our reason must be it equaly.
There are the chaplain who awake our belief and improve our consciousness. There are his chaplain in this jail truly revealing of our society, who impose us of don'' stay silent face to unspeakable.
The priest Niaussat a receive much, he has so many received during all this years, who he has held to we do profite of this gifts. Yes, yes, all that he has amass , in sorrow and sadness, are became the seeds. All that he has sow, in little seed of nothing, in place of the hate, has finish by sprout. Of resentment, it didn''t stay nothing, that one love flower and of prayer. That named " the sowing and harvest" gospel words.
In reading this book, you learn the difference between a remand centre and a jail, a remand centre or a central house following the duration and the hardness of the punishment. You can mix with "the jail of disgrace" here , where the mens are in waiting of one clues of their innoncence or of their guilty, to heart of the human misery. In this evil, we plunge the person as the inquiry will reveal more later, often many years later, their innoncence. And if it was my brother, my husband, my son... A nearest ! No, you know that, that touch that the orthers !!!
In reading this book, you learn a little of our France history where we disrupt us to the door of the disgrace in this human condition! The disgrace of don''t be revolted ! The disgrace of don''t have the vote right! The shame to see the person who gouvern us, in a beautiful country of human rights.