Note: This statistical presentation was not updated for 2015 because of the myriad changes that took place over the year regarding the collection of prison data. First of all, the adoption of the computer management program GENESIS in prisons led to certain prison sources disappearing – not least the quarterly statistics which enabled description in terms of "flows". This calculation of newly placed prisoners also assumed the consolidation by the prison administration of figures taken from different sources, according to a calculation method which was also amended during the year. As a result, updated data is presented below solely for "stocks", particularly from monthly statistics which are still, for their part, available (see 1.5 below). Reference: Temporary Detention Surveillance Committee, 2015-2016 Report, Paris, CSDP, 2016. For the 2014 figures presented, here, the numbers counted are by imprisonment judgement, for this legal placement under the responsibility of a penal institution no longer always involves accommodation. According to an estimate by the Prison Authorities Department (PMJ5) relating to the whole of France, placements in detention (imprisonment without adjustment of sentence ab initio or within seven days) represented 78% of imprisonments in 2013. This percentage was still 94% in 2006. Before the introduction, at the start of the 2000s, of electronic surveillance for prisoners (Act of 19 December 1997), it was almost 100%. This estimate of placements in detention enables, from 2006 in this table, a series to be offered for those arrested and sentenced, placed in detention, that is, according to the methodology used, not having an adjustment of sentence ab initio or within the seven days following imprisonment (external placement or placement under electronic surveillance). Comment: This new series enables us to see that the new level of placements in detention of those sentenced has not fundamentally changed since the development of sentence adjustment. Even though we only have the overall statistics for all remand prisoners for 2014, the long-term drop in placements in temporary detention in the context of committal proceedings seems to have arrived at a ceiling and those making their appearance in court immediately are also stabilising. The drop in "imprisoned" in police statistics has not been confirmed (but the definition is not the same). Finally placements in detention of "remand prisoners" (in the context of committal proceedings or immediate appearance in court before final sentencing) are clearly the majority among those detained. References: These series, as with all of those from the prison statistics, have been reconstituted by Bruno Aubusson de Cavarlay (Cesdip/CNRS) for the oldest period, from printed sources. For more recent years – with the exception, as indicated, of figures from 2015 – they are now regularly distributed by the studies and estimates office of the prison administration (DAPPMJ5) in a document entitled "Statistical series of persons appearing before the courts" ("Séries statistiques des personnes placées sous main de justice")49. In relation to temporary detention, other series are presented in the 2015 report by the Temporary Detention Surveillance Committee (December 2016)50. 49 Statistical series available for 2014 on the Ministry of Justice website at: http://www.justice.gouv.fr/prison-etreinsertion-10036/les-chiffres-clefs-10041/series-statistiques-des-personnes-placees-sous-main-de-justice-26147.html 50 This report is available online: http://www.justice.gouv.fr/le-garde-des-sceaux-10016/rapport-sur-la-detentionprovisoire-29547.html 134