The ''Centre pénitentiaire de Rennes'' is a women's prison of the

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Rennes Rennes (; br, Roazhon ; Gallo: ''Resnn''; ) is a city in the east of Brittany in northwestern France at the confluence of the Ille and the Vilaine. Rennes is the prefecture of the region of Brittany, as well as the Ille-et-Vilaine department ...

Brittany Brittany (; french: link=no, Bretagne ; br, Breizh, or ; Gallo language, Gallo: ''Bertaèyn'' ) is a peninsula, Historical region, historical country and cultural area in the west of modern France, covering the western part of what was known ...

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. Since 2008, it has been the only

women's prison This article discusses the incarceration of women in correctional facilities. As of 2013 across the world, 625,000 women and children were being held in penal institutions, and the female prison population was increasing in all continents.

in France. Its operations began in 1878.Rennes CPF
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. 8 November 2010. Retrieved on 19 March 2011. It was designed by the architect,

Alfred-Nicolas Normand Alfred-Nicolas Normand (1 June 1822, Paris – 2 March 1909, Paris) was a French architect and photographer. Biography His father, Louis-Eléonor Normand (1780-1862), was also an architect and provided some of his first lessons. In 1842, he ent ...

. The prison also inspired the name of the character “Rennes”, from the 1997 Canadian horror film Cube.

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