Community service (TIG) and electronically supervised home detention (DDSE) are two emblematic measures of the policy launched over twenty years ago to promote alternatives to imprisonment. At the beginning of April 2024, just over 22,000 people were being monitored under the TIG scheme and 18,000 under the DDSE scheme, a number equivalent to almost half the prison population. These two alternative sentences are at the heart of the reforms introduced starting in 2019 to ensure that detention ceases to be the central response of the law enforcement system. The place of community service and electronically supervised home detention on the sentencing scale has been raised and specific resources have been allocated to promote them. However, despite its stated ambitions, this policy has had no effect on the increase in the number of people incarcerated, which reached a record level of 80,792 in December 2024. The Court of Accounts has therefore decided to carry out an evaluation of the implementation of these two measures.
