Distribution of Convicted Persons according to the Duration of the Sentence being served (including adjusted sentencing without accommodation) Source: Quarterly Statistics of the Population dealt with in Penal Institutions, French Ministry of Justice, Prisons Administration Department, PMJ5. Field: all persons imprisoned; 1970-1980, penal institutions in Mainland France, France and its overseas territories from 1980 (progressive inclusion of French overseas territories as from 1990, completed in 2003). Year Duration of the sentence: number of prisoners Less than 1 year 1 to less than 3 years 3 to less than 5 years 5 years and more 1970 6,239 5,459 1,660 1980 7,210 5,169 1980 7,427 1990 Percentage distribution All convicted prisoners Less than 1 year 1 to less than 3 years 3 to less than 5 years 5 years and more 4,616 17,974 34.7% 30.4% 9.2% 25.7% 1,713 5,324 19,416 37.1% 26.6% 8.8% 27.4% 5,316 1,791 5,662 20,196 36.8% 26.3% 8.9% 28.0% 6,992 5,913 3,084 8,642 24,631 28.4% 24.0% 12.5% 35.1% 2000 8,365 6,766 4,139 13,856 33,126 25.3% 20.4% 12.5% 41.8% 2010 17,445 14,174 5,628 13,442 50,689 34.4% 28.0% 11.1% 26.5% 2011 17,535 14,780 5,709 13,248 51,272 34.2% 28.8% 11.1% 25.8% 2012 20,641 17,226 6,202 13,428 57,497 35.9% 30.0% 10.8% 23.4% 2013 21,961 18,169 6,647 13,563 60,340 36.4% 30.1% 11.0% 22.5% 2014 22,213 18,288 6,868 13,902 61,261 36.3% 29.9% 11.2% 22.7% 2015 22,078 17,583 7,122 13,959 60,742 36.3% 28.9% 11.7% 23% Note: For the reason indicated previously, the series presented here could not be updated for 2016. For the previous years, this analysis of those sentenced includes those whose sentence has been adjusted, without accommodation. On 1 January 2015, out of the 60,742 sentenced to imprisonment, 12,689 were not detained under adjusted sentences and 2,659 were in day parole or placed in external accommodation. Therefore 45,394 of those sentenced were detained without adjustment of sentence: the analysis of this group by the quantum of sentence being carried out is not shown by this statistical source. Comment: This table shows the trend reversing from 2000. During the last three decades of the 20th century, the growth in the number of those imprisoned serving long sentences was constant and marked. The voluntary policy of developing the adjustment of short sentences (firstly less than one year and then less than two years) follows regrowth in short sentencing demonstrated by the statistics of sentencing, whilst long sentences have stabilised at a high level. The reconciliation between counting movements and those in stock shows that the average duration of imprisonment doubled between 1970 and 2008 (2009 CGLPL Report, Page 251, note 2 in the French version). Indicators then continued to increase to 10.4 months in 2013. This increase is confirmed for the average duration of detention within its strict meaning: this increased from 8.6 months in 2006 to 11.5 months in 2013 (DAP-PMJ5.2014). Additional reference: "L’aménagement des peines : compter autrement ? Perspectives de long terme", (Adjustment of sentences: another way of counting? Long-term outlook) Criminocorpus, 2013, (http://criminocorpus.revues.org/2477). 136