The building, deemed too obsolete to continue in its purpose, became the subject of a real estate project from its closure in 2009.

[1] In 1984, a scheduled expansion of the prison on Rue Delandine was rejected by Mayor Francisque Collomb.

[2] A song written by a Lyon band named My Dragon, entitled "Les Cafards", criticised prison overcrowding.

Located in the north of the Confluence quarter, both prisons were the subject of multiple projects, but became threatened with destruction.

[5] A project by the private Catholic University of Lyon to open a 5,000-student campus in the former Prison Saint-Paul won the renewal competition.