"Alarmant": the Opacity of Deaths and Suicides in Prison Denounced by the Comptroller General
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The Ministry of Justice recorded 275 deaths in prisons in 2025, without distinguishing the percentage of women and minors, of which more than half (136) were suicides.
In 2025, 275 people died in French prisons, 136 of them by suicide. Dominique Simonnot denounces shortcomings in the identification and prevention of deaths in all places of deprivation of liberty.
The exact number of people dead in these places "is neither fully known nor made public", "failure to trace and provide adequate information", points out Dominique Simonnot.
In two opinions published in the "Official Journal", the Comptroller General of Places of Deprivation of Liberty points to the opacity of deaths in prison. "Their exact number" is not known, she warns, also stressing a high suicide rate. - "Alarmant": the opacity of deaths and suicides in prison denounced by the Comptroller General (Police, justice and other facts).
The exact number of people dead in these places "is neither fully known nor made public", "failure to trace and provide adequate information", regrets the CGLPL.
INFO THE TELEGRAMME. 22 prisoners died in two years in Rennes-Vezin prison. An unpublished report by the General Controller of Places of Deprivation of Liberty reveals an overcrowded and violent prison where the distress of detainees is not sufficiently taken into account.
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