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First broadcast on 01/03/2007 A young woman facing prison. For her first position after the school of the judiciary, Françoise-Léa Cramier, 28 years old, chose to be a Judge of the Application of Sentences. She follows the prison destiny of the 600 prisoners, including a hundred women, of the Joux-la-Ville detention center (Yonne). In this closed world, full of violence and suffering, she has the power to open a door to the exit. It is she who decides to release, or not, a prisoner before the end of his sentence. A judge alone facing her decisions. Françoise-Léa Cramier is filmed in the intimacy of her work in prison, during her one-on-one interviews with the prisoners as well as during the solemn hearings. When the court goes to the prison, with prosecutor, clerk and lawyer, it must judge, alone, whether to grant parole to a murderer, a drug trafficker or a sex offender. Each of its decisions is a bet. When the JAP releases a prisoner, it encourages his reintegration, but each time it takes the risk of recidivism and that of facing, itself, the judgment of public opinion. A film by Richard Puech, Sarah Lebas