Melun's public hospital illegally isolated psychiatric patients and locked minors in adult wards, France's detention watchdog found.

France's Contrôleur général des lieux de privation de liberté (CGLPL) issued urgent recommendations, published in the Journal officiel on 24 March 2026, after a 4-7 August 2025 follow-up visit to the 88-bed psychiatry division of the Groupe hospitalier Sud Île-de-France in Melun. It found seven in-patient deaths between January 2024 and August 2025, several in isolation or locked rooms without adequate monitoring.