France · Île-de-France · Fresnes
Maison d'arrêt de Fresnes
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One of the three largest French prisons. Includes a national hospital establishment for inmates.
Background
Fresnes Prison (French Centre pénitentiaire de Fresnes) is the second largest prison in France, located in the town of Fresnes, Val-de-Marne, south of Paris. It comprises a large men's prison (maison d'arrêt) of about 1,200 cells, a smaller one for women and a penitentiary hospital. Fresnes is one of the three main prisons of the Paris area, Fleury-Mérogis (Europe's largest prison) and La Santé (located in Paris) being the other two.
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Capacity
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Current population
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Occupancy
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Year opened
1898
Operational
Facility profile
Operator
Administration pénitentiaire
Population held
mixed
Opened
1898
Region
Île-de-France
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
Data completeness
62%How many of our profile fields are populated. We surface this so families and researchers know the limits.
Sources
- Ministère de la Justice — Fresnes
- Direction de l'administration pénitentiaire — France — Ministère de la Justice (République française)
- Wikipedia — Wikimedia Foundation
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.