La Santé Prison: Serving Time in the Heart of Paris

Our very first Geographics video was about a Russian prison, Pyatak, made famous by its remote location and by the regime of isolation to which its inmates are sentenced. In today’s Geographics, we will explore another prison, which in a way is the radical opposite of Pyatak. This correctional facility is located in one of the most densely populated districts of a great European capital. Its residents are unlikely to complain about being left alone … if anything, overpopulation is more of a problem. So, welcome, or should I say Bienvenues to La Santé Prison in Paris, France.

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Source/Further reading:

A quick history of La Santé: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2844551/Inside-notorious-prison-home-Carlos-Jackal.html
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/07/la-sante-prison-paris-visitors-welcome
Architect Vaudremer and the Panopticon:
https://criminocorpus.org/fr/bibliotheque/doc/2334/
https://www.encyclopedia.com/education/dictionaries-thesauruses-pictures-and-press-releases/vaudremer-joseph-auguste-emile
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bentham-project/who-was-jeremy-bentham/panopticon
Apollinaire:
http://www.openculture.com/2019/01/when-pablo-picasso-and-guillaume-apollinaire-were-accused-of-stealing-the-mona-lisa-1911.html
https://guillaume-apollinaire.fr/
Mesrine:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/jacques-mesrine-le-grand-gangster-1766392.html
Carlos:
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Carlos-the-Jackal
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/07/la-sante-prison-paris-visitors-welcome
Ben Bellah:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/apr/11/ahmed-ben-bella
https://www.pambazuka.org/governance/ahmed-ben-bella-i-spent-24-and-half-years-prison
http://www.archipress.org/?page_id=658
Jean Genet:
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jean-Genet https://www.faber.co.uk/9780571250387-miracle-of-the-rose.html
Michel Vaujour:
https://www.parismatch.com/Actu/Societe/Michel-Vaujour-son-evasion-de-la-prison-de-la-Sante-en-photos-1576847


The 2000 medical report
https://www.nytimes.com/2000/01/28/world/expose-of-brutal-prison-jolts-france-s-self-image.html
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/21/france-la-sante-prison-paris-renovation

The New Santé
https://www.tellerreport.com/news/--renovated-health-prison-reopens-in-paris-after-four-years-of-work-.SyN4FdgM4.html
Islamist radicals at La Santé
https://www.lexpress.fr/actualite/societe/la-prison-de-la-sante-accueille-ses-premiers-detenus-radicalises_2089483.html
Neighbourhood complaints:
https://www.20minutes.fr/paris/2567331-20190719-paris-bordel-heures-fixe-riverains-prison-sante-exasperes