There are two principal prisons in Rouen: the house of correction, and the maison de justice, in the court of the Palais-de-Justice. The first, commonly called BicÊtre, contains the debtors, prisoners accused but not tried, and those sentenced to imprisonment under twelve months; in the second those already convicted for crimes are confined. Those sentenced to more than twelve months are sent to the central depÔt at Gaillon, ten leagues distant from Rouen.

According to a statement made by M^r Vingtrinier, the principal physician of the prisons, the average of the population of the house of correction is about three hundred; that of the maison de justice about ninety; the mortality about one in fifty nine, in the first, and one in sixty eight, in the second.