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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%.
Core Publications of the World Prison Brief. Such as the World Prison Population List, and the World Female Imprisonment List. Persons Detained Statistics of incarceration ("detained") from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime; Data Analysis Tools – Corrections Statistical Analysis Tool (CSAT) – Prisoners.
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.
Defunct prisons in France (4 C, 13 P) L. Prisons in Lyon (2 P) P. Prisons in Paris (1 C, 2 P) Prisons in French Guiana (1 C) Pages in category "Prisons in France"
The ÉRIS were created in 2003, by the Prefect Didier Lallement, director of the penitentiary administration, after the successive mutinies in prisons in Moulins and Clairvaux. [3] When the teams were created, they comprised 210 personnel; [ 4 ] In 2010, the ÉRIS were made up of around 400 people from the French prison administration.
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 ]
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Fresnes Prison (French Centre pénitentiaire de Fresnes) is the second largest prison in France, located in the town of Fresnes, Val-de-Marne, south of Paris. It comprises a large men's prison ( maison d'arrêt ) of about 1,200 cells, a smaller one for women and a penitentiary hospital.