Prison: what to do with your sentence?

France is locking up more and more people. With 77,677 people incarcerated for only 61,358 available places, prison density is on average close to 148%, and exceeds 250% in some establishments. As a result, France has been condemned several times by the European Court of Human Rights. And since today's prisoners will be free again tomorrow, how can we reconcile human rights and detention? How can we think about the meaning of punishment without denying the need for justice? How can we think about rehabilitation after years of isolation in degraded conditions?

With Dominique Simonnot, Controller General of Places of Deprivation of Liberty, Olivia Ronen criminal lawyer and Salah Abdeslam's lawyer in France, Valérie Dassonville director of the Vis-à-Vis festival, a highlight of artistic creation in prisons, Redwane Rajel actor.
Hosted by journalist Aurore Coulaud