France hosts the largest women’s prison in all of Europe. The penitentiary center of Rennes, in Brittany, has 213 detainees for long sentences, and 31 awaiting trial. Women prisoners represent only 3.3% of the prison population and their voice is rarely heard. RFI went to meet them to talk about confinement. Does a woman give up her body when she’s in prison? Can she have intimacy, sexuality, when the cells are 7m2 and the bodies are watched?
“The Rennes Penitentiary Centre: the body of women in prison”, a major report by Laurence Théault.
