This is the rule: in the name of the fight against recidivism and to promote reintegration, release from prison after two-thirds of the sentence is, in France, systematically preferred.
Better still, during the first confinement, a circular from the Chancellery dating from June 2019 urged the prosecution not to carry out the shortest sentences, to adapt those less than or equal to six months and to relieve the convicts of their alternative sentence to the 'incarceration.
Although rebutted by the Council of State, this circular has not been repealed.
This groundswell, which ended up making incarceration the exception and penalty arrangements the rule, is based on the conviction that prison is necessarily criminogenic and promotes recidivism.
However, statistics from the Chancellery published last July, leaves some doubt.
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Admittedly, the document affirms that "
the rate of recidivism increases with the number of previous convictions",
without specifying whether the latter
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