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Article R57-4-1 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

The purposes of the automated processing of personal data known as “application des peines, probation et insertion” (APPI), the information and personal data that may be recorded therein, the operating and access rules, the rights of the persons concerned by the processing, as well as the possibilities of interconnection or linking with other processing are determined by the provisions of articles R. 113-49 et seq. of the Penitentiary Code.

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Article R57-5 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

For the application of this Title, the magistrate to whom the file of proceedings is referred designates, as the case may be, the investigating judge or the juvenile judge, the liberty and custody judge, the public prosecutor, the president of the investigating chamber, the president of the assize court, the public prosecutor at the court of appeal and the public prosecutor at the Court of Cassation.

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Article R57-5-1 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

The investigating judge may decide to place an adult in judicial isolation at any time during the investigation procedure. When referring the matter to the liberty and custody judge for the purposes of remanding the person in custody or renewing the measure, the investigating judge may indicate in his order that he wishes the person to be subjected to or maintained in judicial isolation.

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Article R57-5-3 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

The examining magistrate or the liberty and custody judge shall specify the duration of the measure, which may not exceed that of the detention order, in the order by which he subjects a person to judicial isolation. If this is not specified, the duration is that of the detention order. These instructions are mentioned in the individual notice accompanying the detention order or, if the measure is decided at a…

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Article R57-5-4 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

The reasoned decision to place a person in judicial segregation or to extend the measure may be included in the detention order or the order extending detention, or may be the subject of a separate order. When the pre-trial detention of a person placed in judicial segregation is extended, the segregation measure ends immediately if it is not expressly renewed in the extension order or by a separate order made…

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Article R57-5-5 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

At any time during the information procedure, judicial isolation may be terminated by order of the investigating judge, acting ex officio, on the application of the public prosecutor, at the request of the head of the prison or at the request of the detainee. It may also be terminated by order of the liberty and custody judge, acting ex officio, on the application of the public prosecutor or at the…

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Article R57-5-7 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

The person shall be notified by any means of the order for placement in judicial isolation, renewal of this measure or refusal to terminate it. This order may be referred by the detainee to the president of the investigating chamber in accordance with the procedures set out in articles 148-6and 148-7.

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