• Our press review
• The testimonials collected by Prison Insider’s team
• Picture gallery attached to this country-profile

• The FARAPEJ: Federation of associations for reflection-action, prison and justice.
  • News Chronicles Prison-Justice
  • Tip sheets (70 fact sheets on prison and criminal justice, organised by theme)
  • Prison Justice magazine, reflections on criminal justice, prison and organisational action.
  • FARAPEJ and Carcéropolis: Guide for organisations doing prison-related work (here) (in French only).

• Carcéropolis : Multimedia information portal on prisons (in French only).

• International Prison Observatory - French Section (OIP-SF) and Dedans-Dehors : the OIP-SF blog on Mediapart

• Controller-General of the Places of Deprivation of Liberty (CGPL) published her status report for 2018 with Éditions Dalloz. This report was presented during a press conference on 27 March 2019 and is available in bookstores.
  • Read the 2018 annual report in its entirety (in French)
  • See the photographs of the 2018 annual report (captions in French)
  • Read the press kit of the 2018 annual report (in French).

• Ban public: information portal on prisons (in French only).

• Department of Prisons (DAP), Key figures from the prison administration, published 1 January 2018

• La Cimade, Foreign nationals in prison, in the shadow of the law, 59 pages, 2014

• Criminocorpus, Museum of the History of Justice, Crime and Punishment.

Reports¶

• Report of the National Association of Independent Assessors of the Prison Disciplinary Commission (ANAEC)
• Counter-report from FARAPEJ “How to finally end prison overcrowding”
• White Paper on Prison Administration: Contribution of the National Union of Prison Directors (SNDP)
• The report of the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT)
• The Executive Summary of the CPT report

Select books (in French)¶

• COMBESSIE Philippe, Sociologie de la prison, éd. La Découverte, coll. Repères, 2009, 128 pages.
• CNCDH, CREDOF, OIP, Défendre en justice la cause des personnes détenues, actes du colloque, éd. La Documentation française, 2014, 264 pages
• DINDO Sarah, Parlons prison en trente questions, éd. La Documentation française, 2015, 96 pages
• FASSIN Didier, L’ombre du monde. Une anthropologie de la condition carcérale, Paris, Seuil, coll. “La couleur des idées”, 2015, 601 pages
• FASSIN Didier, Punir, une passion contemporaine, Paris, Seuil, 2017, 208 pages
• NOËL Étienne et SANSON Manuel, Aux côtés des détenus. Un avocat contre l’État, éd. François Bourrin Éditeur, 190 pages, 2013.
• Observatoire International des Prisons, Passés par la case prison, éd. La Découverte, 2014, 208 pages
• Observatoire International des Prisons, Le guide du prisonnier, OIP-SF, éd. La Découverte, 2012, 704 pages
• THONNELIER-LEMAITRE Francine, On m’appelle la mule. Paroles libres de femmes en prison, éd. Chronique sociale, coll. Comprendre les personnes, 2015, 143 pages.
• TIGNOUS, Murs… Murs. La vie plus forte que les barreaux, éd. Glénat, 2015, 152 pages.

Documentaries and audio material¶

• DROLC Nicolas et LIVROZET Serge, Sur les toits, 90 minutes, 2013.
• FERRAN Nicolas et GAUTIER Samuel, À l’air libre, 80 minutes, 2016.
• MERCURIO Stéphane, À l’ombre de la République, 100 minutes, 2011.
• RECHARD Catherine, Le déménagement, 2012.
• La Revue sonore, Le son de l’intérieur. Ten sound photographs from Les Baumettes prison.
• Des nouvelles des prisons: que se passe-t-il derrière les barreaux ? 7 milliards de voisins program aired on RFI.