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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 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.
Government will switch penalties to community service and release some prisoners early
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.
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 ...
Nouville, story of a prison, radio documentary by La Fabrique de l'histoire on France Culture. New Caledonia, island of exile, land of asylum, 2004, Museum of the City of Nouméa, (French version), Sugar cane in the Caledonian penal colony (Alain Saussol, 2002). Records of the registers: death on Île Nou (1865-1939) New Caledonia.