Centre Pénitentiaire De Rennes
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The ''Centre pénitentiaire de Rennes'' is a women's prison of the
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Rennes Rennes (; ; Gallo language, Gallo: ''Resnn''; ) is a city in the east of Brittany in Northwestern France at the confluence of the rivers Ille and Vilaine. Rennes is the prefecture of the Brittany (administrative region), Brittany Regions of F ...
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Brittany Brittany ( ) is a peninsula, historical country and cultural area in the north-west of modern France, covering the western part of what was known as Armorica in Roman Gaul. It became an Kingdom of Brittany, independent kingdom and then a Duch ...
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. Since 2008, it has been the only
women's prison Approximately 741,000 women are incarcerated in correctional facilities, a 17% increase since 2010 and the female prison population has been increasing across all continents.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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