Note: The numbers counted are by imprisonment judgement. This legal placement under the responsibility of a penitentiary institution does not always involve accommodation. According to an estimate by the Prison Authorities Department (PMJ5) relating to France and its overseas territories, placements in detention (imprisonment without reduction of sentence ab initio or within seven days) represent 78% of imprisonments in 2013. This percentage was still 94% in 2006. Before the introduction, at the start of the 2000’s, of electronic surveillance for detainees (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 a reduction of sentence ab initio or within the seven days following imprisonment (external placement or placement under electronic surveillance). Comments: 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 reduction. 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. They are now regularly distributed by the studies and estimates office of the prison administration (DAP-PMJ5) in a document entitled "Statistical series of persons appearing before the courts" ("Séries statistiques des personnes placées sous main de justice")45. In relation to temporary detention, other series are presented in the commission report for 2013 relating to monitoring temporary detention (March 2014)46. 45 Statistical series available for 2014 on the Ministry of Justice website at: http://www.justice.gouv.fr/prison-et-reinsertion-10036/les-chiffres-clefs-10041/series-statistiques-des-personnesplacees-sous-main-de-justice-26147.html 46 The 2013 report from the commission monitoring temporary detention is available on the CESDIP website at: http://www.cesdip.fr/IMG/pdf/Rapport_CSDP_2013.pdf 121