(FILES) An agent of the French Penitentiary administration walks through a corridor at the Rennes-Vezin prison on October 12, 2026. French prisons held 90,937 inmates as at October 1, 2026, a new record, against a backdrop of chronic prison overcrowding, according to statistics from France's Ministry of Justice published on November 2, 2026. (Photo by Loic VENANCE / AFP via Getty Images)