France · DISP Lyon · Villefranche-sur-Saône
Centre pénitentiaire de Villefranche Sur Saone
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Gallery
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Photo by Benoît Prieur via Wikimedia Commons (CC0)
Photo by Benoît Prieur via Wikimedia Commons (CC0)
Capacity
638
Current population
908
Occupancy
142%
Year opened
1990
Operational
Facility profile
Operator
General Directorate of Penitentiary Administration
Population held
male
Opened
1990
Region
DISP Lyon
Security level
—
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.
Notable inmates
Pascal Payet1963Pascal Payet (born 7 July 1963) is a French criminal who has gained notoriety for his daring prison escapes using hijacked helicopters.
Alain Carignon1949 · politicianAlain Carignon (French pronunciation: [alÉÌ kaÊiɲÉÌ]; born 23 February 1949 in Vizille (Isère)) is a conservative French politician.
- Pierre Botton1955 · businessperson
Source: Wikidata + Wikipedia.
Contact & address
Conditions Risk Score
Derived signal — not a judgement. How it's calculated
- Overcrowding
- 12/30
- Oversight reports
- 0/30
- Structural flags
- 0/15
- Death signals
- 0/15
- Conditions text
- 0/10
What the score is responding to:
- · Operating at 142% of design capacity
Compared to other facilities in France
731 peersData completeness
58%How many of our profile fields are populated. We surface this so families and researchers know the limits.
Sources
- DAP – Statistique des établissements et des personnes écrouées en France
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation
- OpenStreetMap — OpenStreetMap Contributors
- Direction de l'administration pénitentiaire â France — Ministère de la Justice (République française)
- Wikidata (Q3279241)
- Wikimedia Commons
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.