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53,000 mobile phones seized in French prisons in 2023, a record figure. Phones that are used to organize all kinds of trafficking and to enrich certain prisoners behind bars, but which can also be used to threaten, put pressure on prison officers or even order criminal activities outside. A look into a prison system that is at the end of its tether, where prisoners make the law. An investigation by Benoît Sarrade, Maël Jeanthon and Clément Granon.