Desc: Prisons, la honte de la république: Directed by Bernard George. Overcrowded prisons, lack of hygiene, lack of access to care, dilapidation, violence, suicides, scorned dignity - For several years, reports deploring the shortcomings of the French prison system have continued to accumulate. However, nothing seems to be moving: it is as if the State was turning its back on any desire to reform these conditions. However, since 2002, the number of imprisonments has continued to increase. Bernard George's film bluntly denounces the dysfunctions of the French prisons. Built around sensitive testimonies, archive images seeming to emerge from another century, faithful reconstructions and speakers with indisputable legitimacy, this movie offers a gripping inventory of the conditions of detention in France in 2006.