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France

Capital city — Paris

  • Country population

    66,726,000
    i
    2016
    / Prison administration
  • Incarceration rate (per 100,000 inhabit…

    0
    i
    2016
    / Prison administration
  • Type of government

    A semi-presidential republic
  • Human Development Index

    0.897
    i
    2016
    / UNDP
  • Name of authority in charge of the pris…

    The Ministry of Justice
  • Total number of prisoners

    66,678
    i
    2016
    / Prison administration
  • Average length of imprisonment (in mont…

    10.2
    i
    2014
    / Mynistry of Justice
  • Prison density

    113.8 %
    i
    2016
    / Prison administration
  • Total number of prison facilities

    187
    i
    2016
    / Prison administration
  • An NPM has been established

    yes, in 2007
  • Number and percentage of female prisone…

    3.2 %
    i
    2016
    / Prison administration
  • Incarcerated minors

    1.1 %
    i
    2016
    / Ministry of Justice
  • Untried prisoners

    27.2 %
    i
    2016
    / Prison administration
  • Death penalty is abolished

    yes, in 1981
    i
    2016
    / Legifrance
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    • Prison population
    • Organisation
    • Prison facilities
  • Safeguards
    • National Preventive Mechanisms and other external control bodies
  • Special populations
    • Women
    • Minors
    • Untried prisoners
    • Death penalty prisoners
  • Physical integrity
    • Death penalty
    • Life imprisonment
    • Deaths in detention
    • Ill-treatment and violence
    • Arbitrary or secret detention
  • Specific population
    • Prison population
    • Women
    • Juveniles
    • Foreigners
    • LGBTI persons
    • Prisoners of conscience
    • The elderly
    • The sick and the disabled
  • The system organisation
  • The penitentiary system
    • Premises
    • Staff
  • Daily life
    • The cells and their equipment
    • Food
    • Hygiene
    • Health
    • Activities
    • Work
    • Schooling and professional training
    • Media
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    • External participants
    • Financial resources and destitution
    • Means of communication for the inmates
    • Collective movements
    • Security and safety
  • Contact with the outside world
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    • Sentence adjustment policies
    • Access to legal rights
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The penitentiary system

Premises

Number of institutions with private management

54

i
The Ministry of Justice

Number of available places for prisoners

58,681

i
01/01/2017
/ the prison administration

Staff

Number of guards

27,115

i
The prison administration

Guards-inmates ratio

0.41

Number of technical workers

618

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The prison administration
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