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Prison Beaulieu
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Capacity
438
Current population
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Occupancy
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Year opened
1696
Operational
Figures from official sources · verified 29 May 2026 · methodology
Facility profile
Population held
Mixed/unknown
Opened
1696
Region
Caen
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.
Notable inmates
- Pierre Audigé1908–1944 · dental practitioner
- Francis Guillo1912–1996 · autobiographer
- Pierre Rivière1815–1840 · peasant
- Francis Ãvrard1946 · serial rapist
Francis Evrard (born July 12, 1946) is a French-Belgian serial rapist and pedophile, whose rise to notoriety came following his 2007 abduction, kidnapping and rape of a 5-year-old boy from his hometown of Roubaix, in Nord.
Source: Wikidata + Wikipedia.
Contact & address
Conditions Risk Score
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Compared to other facilities in France
731 peersCapacity (beds)this: 438 · peers avg: 344 (+27%)
Data completeness
34%How many of our profile fields are populated. We surface this so families and researchers know the limits.
Sources
- OpenStreetMap — OpenStreetMap Contributors
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation
- Wikidata (Q2945992)
- Wikimedia Commons
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.
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APA
World Prisons. (2026). Prison Beaulieu. Retrieved July 21, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/prison-beaulieu
Chicago
"Prison Beaulieu." World Prisons. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/prison-beaulieu.
BibTeX
@misc{worldprisons-prison-beaulieu,
author = {{World Prisons}},
title = {Prison Beaulieu},
year = {2026},
url = {https://worldprisons.com/prisons/prison-beaulieu},
urldate = {2026-07-21}
}