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Palais de Via
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Capacity
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Current population
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Occupancy
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Year opened
1790
Operational
Figures from official sources · verified 29 May 2026 · methodology
Facility profile
Operator
Ministry of Justice of FrancePopulation held
Mixed/unknown
Opened
1790
Region
Cahors
Security level
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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
No public contact details available.
Conditions Risk Score
Derived signal — not a judgement. How it's calculated
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Insufficient data
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Data completeness
20%How many of our profile fields are populated. We surface this so families and researchers know the limits.
Sources
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation
- Wikidata (Q15952595)
- Wikimedia Commons
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.
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APA
World Prisons. (2026). Palais de Via. Retrieved July 23, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/palais-de-via
Chicago
"Palais de Via." World Prisons. Accessed July 23, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/palais-de-via.
BibTeX
@misc{worldprisons-palais-de-via,
author = {{World Prisons}},
title = {Palais de Via},
year = {2026},
url = {https://worldprisons.com/prisons/palais-de-via},
urldate = {2026-07-23}
}