Government authorities are developing a policy on health prevention and education in correctional facilities. Improving access to preventive care for inmates is one of the priorities of...

Jean-Marie Delarue served as Inspector General of Places of Detention from June 2008 to June 2014. In this capacity, he visited every French correctional facility (including those in the...

Prison conditions depend on numerous individual and environmental factors that can negatively impact living conditions. Daily routines, roll calls, meals, access to visiting rooms, work,...

Since 1994, the health care of inmates has been entrusted to the public hospital system. Prison staff have established partnerships with all stakeholders in the prison system,...

As an ethnologist and prison psychologist, Pierre-Jacques Dusseau offers his perspective on how inmates view their health. He describes inmates’ expectations and their anxieties. He...

Pierre-Jacques Dusseau collected testimonies from inmates and prison staff. The goal was to describe prison life in their own words and to highlight the inmates’ health concerns.

The highest number of accidents occurs during physical education classes at school, a fact that is likely linked to circadian rhythms (biological rhythms). An observational study was...

The author, a magistrate with the Directorate of Prison Administration, provides a statistical overview of the prison population in France: trends in the number of inmates, age,...

The author, who heads the Lyon Regional Correctional Services Office, draws on a study of inmate morbidity conducted in 1988 and 1989 by the Lyon Association of Criminology and Social...

The author, a member of the Ministry of Social Affairs’ task force on healthcare in prisons, outlines the main provisions of Law 94-43, which establishes the framework for a new...