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 Ministry 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 serving sentences Total prisoners Convicted persons serving sentences Convicted prisoners Prisoners on remand and persons 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. Comment: Over the past 40 years, the number of prisoners sentenced has grown steadily. The growth profile of the number of "remand" (untried) prisoners (detained before final judgement) is different: stable between 1985 and 1997, it declined until 2010 (before sharply picking up again between 2002 and 2004). Then it climbed steadily before shooting up again through 2016 while the number of convicted prisoners is tending to stagnate. Although no immediate explanation is forthcoming for this increase, the 2015-2016 report of the Temporary Detention Surveillance Committee interestingly ties it in with the November 2015 terror attacks and the impact on judicial practice of the state of emergency that was subsequently introduced. The increase observed does not therefore describe an increase in placements in detention for acts of terrorism (these do not exceed more than a few hundred since the state of emergency was established) but the increased reluctance on the part of judges to release the persons concerned who present similar profiles to persons implicated in this type of case. On this point, see the Temporary Detention Surveillance Committee, 2015-2016 Report, Paris, CSDP, 2016, pp. 27 and after. 135