1.5 Population serving sentences or on remand and prisoners on 1st January of each year ("stocks") Source: Monthly Statistics of the Population of Persons Serving Sentences or on Remand and Prisoners in France, French Minstry of Justice, Annuaire statistique de la Justice and the Prisons Administration Department, PMJ5. Field: All penal institutions, France and its overseas territories (progressive inclusion of French overseas territories as from 1990, completed in 2003). Total persons on remand and persons serving sentences Total prisoners Convicted persons serving sentences Convicted prisoners Prisoners on remand Note: as of 2004, the gap between the two curves for those sentenced, represents all of those sentenced and imprisoned under remission of sentence without accommodation (placement externally or placement under electronic surveillance); this gap will be found for total figures of those imprisoned. Remand prisoners (for immediate committal or court appearance, awaiting sentence or final order) are all included. Comments: Over the past 40 years, the growth in the number of detainees sentenced has not stopped growing. The growth profile of the number of "remand" detainees (detained before final judgement) is different: stabilised between 1985 and 1997, it drops up until 2010 (with a sharp rise from 2002 to 2004), and then shows a slight rise, less marked than that for those sentenced, and corrected with a slight fall in 2015. 122