1.6 Distribution of Convicted Persons according to 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 or more years 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% Less than 1 year Over 1 year to 2 years Over 2 years to 5 years 5 years and more All convicted prisoners Less than 1 year Over 1 year to 2 years 2016 25,325 9,709 11,066 12,343 58,443 43.3% 16.6% 19% 21.1% 2017 26,850 9,445 10,502 12,501 59,298 45.3% 15.9% 17.7% 21.1% Over 2 years to 5 years and 5 years more Note: This table was not updated in the 2016 edition as no quarterly statistics had been published by the DAP due to the above-mentioned change in statistics software. The document published in 2017 partly makes up for this lack by providing figures for the last two years, but adopts a slightly different calculation method. The reference periods for lengths of sentences have been partly modified, with significant effects on certain figures: for sentences of between one and five years, it makes it difficult to compare figures for 2016 and 2017 with those of previous years. This is why we have chosen to present them in a separate table, taking the new DAP criteria as reference. Comparison is easier for sentences of more than five years. For the previous years, this analysis of convicted offenders includes those whose sentences were adjusted, without accommodation. On 1 January 2015, out of the 60,742 individuals 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. 155