France · Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur · Marseille
Centre pénitentiaire de Marseille (Les Baumettes)
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Photo by Lu-xin via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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
Facility profile
Operator
Administration pénitentiaire
Population held
mixed
Opened
1936
Region
Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Security level
Mixed
Death-row facility
No
Conditions
No conditions summary available yet.
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.
Contact & address
Conditions Risk Score
Derived signal — not a judgement. How it's calculated
Compared to other facilities in France
557 peersData completeness
68%How many of our profile fields are populated. We surface this so families and researchers know the limits.
Sources
- Ministère de la Justice — Baumettes
- Direction de l'administration pénitentiaire — France — Ministère de la Justice (République française)
- Wikipedia — Wikimedia Foundation
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.