La Santé Prison: Serving Time in the Heart of Paris

Our very first Geographics video was about a Russian prison, Pyatak, made famous by its remote location and by the regime of isolation to which its inmates are sentenced. In today’s Geographics, we will explore another prison, which in a way is the radical opposite of Pyatak. This correctional facility is located in one of the most densely populated districts of a great European capital. Its residents are unlikely to complain about being left alone … if anything, overpopulation is more of a problem. So, welcome, or should I say Bienvenues to La Santé Prison in Paris, France.

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Host - Simon Whistler
Author - Arnaldo Teodorani
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Source/Further reading:

A quick history of La Santé: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/201...
Architect Vaudremer and the Panopticon:
https://criminocorpus.org/fr/biblioth...
https://www.encyclopedia.com/educatio...
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bentham-project...
Apollinaire:
http://www.openculture.com/2019/01/wh...
https://guillaume-apollinaire.fr/
Mesrine:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/wo...
Carlos:
https://www.britannica.com/biography/...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/201...
Ben Bellah:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/201...
https://www.pambazuka.org/governance/...
http://www.archipress.org/?page_id=658
Jean Genet:
https://www.britannica.com/biography/... https://www.faber.co.uk/9780571250387...
Michel Vaujour:
https://www.parismatch.com/Actu/Socie...


The 2000 medical report
https://www.nytimes.com/2000/01/28/wo...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/201...

The New Santé
https://www.tellerreport.com/news/--r...
Islamist radicals at La Santé
https://www.lexpress.fr/actualite/soc...
Neighbourhood complaints:
https://www.20minutes.fr/paris/256733...