French prison guards blockaded facilities across the country on Monday, with 14 of 17 prisons in the Hauts-de-France region shut down in protest at chronic overcrowding and staff shortages, in a strike called by the UFAP-UNSA union.
Guards also demonstrated at prisons in Bois-d'Arcy near Paris, Lyon-Corbas and Villeneuve-lès-Maguelone in the south, in some cases preventing prisoner transfers. Guards shut the prison gates in Beauvais, Amiens, Douai and Béthune.
