Report France
In France, on April 1, the prison population exceeded 71,000 inmates. A figure up by more than 9% in one year. This is a record since World War II. A record consistently broken, year after year – with one exception in 2020, during the pandemic, when for the first time and very briefly, the number of detainees fell. Figures all the more worrying as there are less than 67,000 places in prison. Prison overcrowding is systemic, and the consequence is the constant deterioration of detention conditions for prisoners and working conditions for their supervisors.