{"id":11702,"date":"2026-03-02T16:25:05","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T16:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/actualitelibre.com\/french-prisoner-population-reaches-record-high\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T16:25:05","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T16:25:05","slug":"french-prisoner-population-reaches-record-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/actualitelibre.com\/en\/french-prisoner-population-reaches-record-high\/","title":{"rendered":"French prisoner population reaches record high"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"article__media\"> <picture class=\"article__media\">  <\/picture> <noscript>  <\/noscript><figcaption class=\"article__legend\" aria-hidden=\"true\">A police officer stands in front of the Majicavo Correctional Center, on the French Indian Ocean territory of Mayotte, on February 23, 2026.  <span class=\"article__credit\" aria-hidden=\"true\">MARINE GACHET \/ AFP<\/span>  <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph  \">France&#8217;s prisoner population broke new records last month, with the jail occupancy rate reaching an all-time high of almost 137%, Justice Ministry data viewed by Agence France-Presse on Monday, March 2, showed. Jails on February 1 counted more than 86,000 inmates despite only having capacity for around 63,000, bringing the occupancy rate to 136.9%, compared to 130.8% a year&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lemonde.fr\/en\/france\/article\/2026\/03\/02\/french-prisons-reach-record-high-in-overcrowding_6751013_7.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A police officer stands in front of the Majicavo Correctional Center, on the French&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[27,188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-france"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/actualitelibre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/actualitelibre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/actualitelibre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actualitelibre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actualitelibre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/actualitelibre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/actualitelibre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actualitelibre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actualitelibre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}