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France: Worship in Prison – Legal Framework and Religious Experience

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Although the exercise of religion in prison is a fundamental freedom, it is regulated in the light of the specific conditions of the prison environment. The French Code of Criminal Procedure, case law and international texts adopted by France provide the legal framework. But the effective implementation of freedom of religion in prisons faces a number of challenges.

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  1. 1.

    Le juge administratif et l’expression des convictions religieuses, Les dossiers thématiques du Conseil d’Etat 2014 (on-line).

  2. 2.

    CE, 11 juin 2014, M.S., no. 365237.

  3. 3.

    CE, 16 October 2013, Keeper of the Seals v/M. F. and others, no. 351115.

  4. 4.

    JORF no. 0273 2009, p. 20192.

  5. 5.

    Council of Europe, Committee of Ministers, Rec (2006) 2.

  6. 6.

    Decree no. 2013-368 2013, on the standard rules of procedure for prisons, JORF no. 0103, 3 May 2013, p. 7609.

  7. 7.

    BOMJ no. 2014, 29 August 2014.

  8. 8.

    The numbers differ slightly in the table provided by the International Prisons Observatory, French section (workforce on 1 August 2015).

  9. 9.

    Circular 2012 on the accreditation of paid or volunteer chaplains, volunteer chaplaincy auxiliaries in correctional institutions, and of occasional chaplaincy attendants, NOR: JUSK 1240021C.

  10. 10.

    JORF no. 0106 2017, text no. 105.

  11. 11.

    M. AB c. Director of the penitentiary centre of Saint-Quentin-Fallavier, request number 1302502. Notice of 24 March 2011, JO no. 0091 2011. Mr. Delarue was General Controller from 2008 to 2014. The controller general is currently Mrs. Adeline Hazan.

  12. 12.

    Administrative Court, Lille, chamber 6, 1 2003, no. 001519, Juris-Data no. 2003-225856.

  13. 13.

    CEDH 2010, case of Jakobski v. Poland, application no. 18429/06.

  14. 14.

    M. AB c. Director of the penitentiary centre of Saint-Quentin-Fallavier, request number 1302502.

  15. 15.

    CE 2014, Keeper of the Seals, Ministry of Justice c/M.B., no. 377145.

  16. 16.

    Lyon 2014, no. 14LY0013.

  17. 17.

    CE 2015, no. 375724.

  18. 18.

    CE 2016, no. 385929, published in the Lebon compilation.

  19. 19.

    https://oip.org/analyse/dossier-la-religion-en-prison/

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    Vincente Fortier

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  1. Faculty of Theology & Religious Studies, University of Groningen, GRONINGEN, Groningen, The Netherlands

    Julia Martínez-Ariño

  2. UMR 7354 Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Strasbourg, France

    Anne-Laure Zwilling

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Fortier, V. (2020). France: Worship in Prison – Legal Framework and Religious Experience. In: Martínez-Ariño, J., Zwilling, AL. (eds) Religion and Prison: An Overview of Contemporary Europe. Boundaries of Religious Freedom: Regulating Religion in Diverse Societies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-36834-0_11

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