PARTIAL-RELEASE SCHEME (OPINION) significant employment basins: this is far from being the case today. Partial release “blindly” follows the geography of penal institutions, thus causing profound inequalities. To say the least, existing means of transport and their costs should be examined. Some open prisons allow “two wheelers” belonging to prisoners to park within their premises. This practice should be general. As these concerns are not taken into account, some open prisons or wings remain largely unoccupied, with magistrates rightly reluctant to order employment plans to take place there that carry high risks of failure. Secondly, it is the case that the opening times of centres or wings are too restricted and incompatible with the hours of some jobs that prisoners have less difficulty finding than others (catering, building, …). Restricting the hours is an operation that, in reality, results in reducing the chances of holding down a job. Many open prisons allow exit and return day and night. This rule should be generalised, including for the open wings. Thirdly, the assignment of those on partial release must take into account the place of their planned employment, so that it has the greatest chance of success, given the opinion of the Court of Final Appeal (Cass. Crim. 21st November 2005) that ruled that a person on partial release could only be assigned to a place specifically planned for partial release. In a centre in the Paris suburbs, the inspectors met a person who worked as a lorry driver in the Loiret. He left the centre at three o’clock in the morning and returned after eight o’clock in the evening. However, there is an open prison at Montargis where it would have been judicious to locate him. Even if the assignment cannot always be made from the outset in relation with the place of employment, transfers should at least be able to be made upon request, with the agreement of the judge responsible for the execution of sentences. The administration has no difficulty in ordering transfers for perfectly legitimate security reasons. Successful integration into society is just as legitimate. If these considerations are important, it is because they partly determine the future of the measure. Indeed, one of the main causes of revocation of the partial-release regime by magistrates is lack of compliance with the times of presence in the institution. The more distant it is from the place of work or various obligations, the greater 135