Chapter III: Provisions common to all prisons

Where a convicted offender has to serve several custodial sentences, the rules specific to convicted offenders in a state of legal recidivism relating to the conditions for granting measures falling within the jurisdiction of the sentence enforcement courts are applicable as long as one or more of the sentences being served or due to be served corresponds to a conviction handed down for acts committed in a state of recidivism….

When a person must serve several custodial sentences, the rules specific to persons convicted of one or more offences defined in Chapter I of Title II of Book IV of the Criminal Code relating to the conditions for granting measures falling within the jurisdiction of the sentence enforcement courts are applicable as long as one or more of the sentences being served or to be served corresponds to a conviction…

The special file opened by the prison administration for any convicted and detained person includes a judicial section set up by the judicial authorities under the conditions provided for by the dispositions de l’article D. 214-11 du code pénitentiaire.

The individual record in the judicial section of the special file provided for by the provisions of article D. 214-11 du code pénitentiaire contains information concerning the convicted person’s civil status, occupation, family situation, means of support, level of education, habitual conduct, character and previous convictions. This information is supplemented by a statement of the facts that led to the conviction and any factors likely to aggravate or mitigate the…