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Centre pénitentiaire de Marseille (Les Baumettes)
Centre pénitentiaireMixedmixedLowHigh
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How to send mail, money, and visit Centre pénitentiaire de Marseille (Les Baumettes)
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Gallery
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Marseille's main prison — historically one of the most overcrowded in France.
Background
Baumettes Prison (also known as the Centre pénitentiaire de Marseille) is a prison in the 9th arrondissement of Marseille.
Source: Wikipedia article lead, CC-BY-SA.
Capacity
710
Current population
—
Occupancy
—
Year opened
1936
Operational
Figures from official sources · verified 9 Jul 2026 · methodology
Facility profile
Operator
Administration pénitentiairePopulation held
mixed
Opened
1936
Region
Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Security level
Mixed
Death-row facility
No
Conditions
(selon le CGLPL) Rapport de visite du centre pénitentiaire des Baumettes à Marseille (Bouches-du-Rhône). Date(s) de visite : Du 08/10/2012 au 19/10/2012 et du 23/09/2013 au 27/09/2013.
Visiting
No visiting information available.
Mailing
No mailing information available.
Practical info
Contact the operator's website for inmate-specific procedures.
Known issues
No major issues documented in our database.
Notable inmates
- Mohamed Amra1994 · criminal
Mohamed Amra (born 10 March 1994), also known as "The Fly" (French: La Mouche), is a French criminal.
- Naphtal Zorman1901–1944 · resistance fighter
Louise Kassis1924–1991 · physician
Mélanie Berger-Volle1921 · tailor- Nelly Huri1907–1998 · resistance fighter
Joseph Joanovici1905–1965 · businessperson
Georges Journois1896–1944 · military personnelGeorges Henri Journois (13 November 1896 â 26 September 1944) was a French resistance fighter and Brigadier General who died in a subcamp of the Neuengamme concentration camp in Wilhelmshaven, Germany.
- François Levan? · gendarme
Showing 9 of 10. Source: Wikidata + Wikipedia.
Contact & address
Conditions Risk Score
Derived signal — not a judgement. How it's calculated
0/100
Low concern0/100
- Overcrowding
- 0/30
- Oversight reports
- 0/30
- Structural flags
- 0/15
- Death signals
- 0/15
- Conditions text
- 0/10
This facility scores 0. The national average across 732 scored France facilities is 12 — 12 points below national average.
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Compared to other facilities in France
731 peersCapacity (beds)this: 710 · peers avg: 343 (+107%)
Data completeness
78%How many of our profile fields are populated. We surface this so families and researchers know the limits.
Sources
- Ministère de la Justice â Baumettes
- CGLPL – Rapport de visite
- Wikipedia — Wikimedia Foundation
- Direction de l'administration pénitentiaire â France — Ministère de la Justice (République française)
- Wikidata (Q980375)
- Wikipedia
- Wikimedia Commons
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.
Cite this page
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APA
World Prisons. (2026). Centre pénitentiaire de Marseille (Les Baumettes). Retrieved July 21, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/centre-penitentiaire-de-marseille-les-baumettes
Chicago
"Centre pénitentiaire de Marseille (Les Baumettes)." World Prisons. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/centre-penitentiaire-de-marseille-les-baumettes.
BibTeX
@misc{worldprisons-centre-penitentiaire-de-mar,
author = {{World Prisons}},
title = {Centre pénitentiaire de Marseille (Les Baumettes)},
year = {2026},
url = {https://worldprisons.com/prisons/centre-penitentiaire-de-marseille-les-baumettes},
urldate = {2026-07-21}
}