1.4 The work of the Contrôleur général's scientific committee On 28 April 2017, the scientific committee of the Contrôleur général met at the CGLPL. Two key themes were addressed: first the question of migrants, and then sexuality in psychiatric hospitals. Ad hoc documentation had been distributed beforehand, to enable any inspectors wishing to do so to delve into the subjects in more detail. This documentation had also been forwarded to the members of the scientific committee, whose recent studies and publications were also communicated. On the subject of migration, inspection reports (particularly bearing on the inspections in Calais), recommendations, opinions and excerpts from the 2016 annual report were shared. Michel Agier, an anthropologist, particularly talked about his experience in Calais and the work in which his students are involved. Benjamin Stora, a historian - who had submitted to the CGLPL his report for the Ministers of Culture and Research on the current situation of research in the humanities and social sciences on migration and refugees - spoke about the changing perceptions of the migratory phenomenon. Regarding the issue of sexuality in psychiatric institutions, which is not systematically addressed in the reports drafted by the CGLPL, Dr Daniel Zagury, a psychiatrist, shared his experience as a hospital director. Didier Fassin, a sociologist and Professor of Social Sciences at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study and Course Director at the School of Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS), whose book "Punir, une passion contemporaine" has just been published by Éditions du Seuil, presented the findings of his research on rationales that are contributing to a toughening of sentences today, by placing his thoughts within a historical context. The members of the scientific committee were invited to take part in the CGLPL's anniversary symposium which took place a few months later. 2. A symposium to mark the tenth anniversary of the Act of 30 October 2007 establishing a Contrôleur général des lieux de privation de liberté On the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the Act of 30 October 2007 establishing a Contrôleur général des lieux de privation de liberté, a symposium was organised on 17 and 18 November 2017 at the Palais du Luxembourg and Maison du Barreau in Paris. This event provided an opportunity to go back over the conditions regarding the CGLPL's founding and running, and to observe the place it has acquired as an authority for external oversight of places of deprivation of liberty. Through comparative accounts given by the CGLPL's observers, the other bodies it works with and its former members, it also enabled an assessment to be made of its action and the work that remains to be outlined in terms of protecting fundamental rights. During her opening address, the Chief Inspector went back over the long history during which, Victor Hugo to Michel Foucault, civil society has changed its perspective of prisons. She highlighted that, today, inspections bearing on the deprivation of liberty cannot be confined to penal institutions: these also encompass psychiatric hospitals and, more recently, a wide range of places, which may be informal, in which foreigners are deprived of liberty in conditions which are sometimes dictated more by urgency than by law. She also emphasised the unique role that CGLPL plays in attesting to the daily reality experienced by people deprived of their liberty, condemning what is unacceptable in this context and raising the alarm over the excessive security measures or indifference. 105