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  2. Prison conditions in France - Wikipedia

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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%. [2]

  3. Comparison of United States incarceration rate with other ...

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    If lists were compiled based on annual admissions to prison per capita, several European countries would outpace the United States. But American prison stays are much longer, so the total incarceration rate is higher." Counting all inmates (not just those in adult prisons and jails) brings the number at the beginning of 2008 to 2.42 million ...

  4. Devil's Island - Wikipedia

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    Other prisoners were housed in prisons onshore, but conditions were reportedly so bad that many prisoners would beg to be transferred to the hulks. [citation needed] By the early 19th century, France's urban population had increased from under six million to over 16 million, [citation needed] and crime kept pace. In 1832, legislation was passed ...

  5. List of countries by incarceration rate - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. Prisons by country - Wikipedia

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    Prison in India, and its administration, is a state subject covered by item 4 under the state list in the Seventh Schedule of the Constitution of India.The management and administration of prisons falls exclusively in the domain of the State Governments, and is governed by the Prisons Act, 1894 and the Prison Manuals of the respective State Governments.

  7. List of prisons - Wikipedia

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    It is the first federal prison in Brazil, designed to receive prisoners deemed too dangerous to be kept in the states' prison systems. Campo Grande Federal Penitentiary ( Campo Grande , Mato Grosso do Sul , Brazil) - It houses the most dangerous prisoners in the country, as Fernandinho Beira-Mar , the Colombian trafficker Juan Carlos Ramírez ...

  8. List of United States federal prisons - Wikipedia

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    The seal of the Federal Bureau of Prisons, the agency that manages U.S. federal prisons. The Federal Bureau of Prisons classifies prisons into seven categories: United States penitentiaries; Federal correctional institutions; Private correctional institutions; Federal prison camps; Administrative facilities; Federal correctional complexes [1]

  9. Category:Prisons in France - Wikipedia

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