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The types of prisons depend on the type of criminals they hold. Firstly, there are the short-stay prisons. Short-stay prisons contain the defendants awaiting their trial, and prisoners sentenced to less than 2 years. These are the most overcrowded prisons in the French penitentiary system, with an average rate of occupancy of 130%.
Maisons d'arrêt ("houses of arrest") are a category of prison in France, Belgium and other French-speaking countries, which hold prisoners awaiting trial or sentencing, or those being held for less than one year. In the Netherlands the Huis van bewaring or Huis van arrest has the same function; the name is a literal translation from the French.
The Cherche-Midi prison was a French military prison located in Paris, France. It housed military prisoners between 1851 and 1947. It housed military prisoners between 1851 and 1947. Construction on the prison began in 1847, when the former convent of the Daughters of the Good Shepherd was demolished on Rue du Cherche-Midi in Paris.
Three of the last four executions in France took place in Baumettes: Ali Benyanès in 1973, Christian Ranucci on 28 July 1976 and the last, Hamida Djandoubi, on 10 September 1977. In January 2015, La Provence revealed that pictures of inmates with "cash, dope and mobile phones" were uploaded to a Facebook page. [ 2 ]
It is among the most crowded prisons in France. Opened in 1991, Villepinte takes prisoners from the busy Bobigny courthouse nearby for pre-trial detention and short sentences.
Mettray in 1844. Mettray Penal Colony, situated in the small village of Mettray, in the French département of Indre-et-Loire, just north of the city of Tours, was a private reformatory, without walls, opened in 1840 for the rehabilitation of young male delinquents aged between 6 and 21.
Gunmen wearing balaclavas ambush a prison van to free notorious inmate "The Fly." - Reuters On May 10, Amra was found guilty on the charge of burglary by a court in Évreux, resulting in a prison ...
The main prison is formed by a polygonal central building from which radiate five blocks, each one consisting of three wings with four levels of cells. Each block has a capacity of 900 prisoners. Fleury-Mérogis is one of the three main prisons of the Paris area, the Fresnes Prison (the second largest in France) and the La Santé Prison ...