 Prison challenged by disability: How to reconcile dignity and equality imperatives in prison life 
This article intends to show how disability is a challenge for prison. Our analyses highlight how this challenge arises when prison is getting to grips with the values of “equality” and “dignity”. On the basis of data from a doctoral research carried out in four prisons in France, we wondered how and why, in spite of an apparent political and legal consistency, a tension arises between the notions of equality and dignity and daily practice in prison. To summon these notions materializes the uncertainty that prison faces when dealing with disability. By describing two types of setting for disabled prisoners, one for persons with a physical disability, the other for persons with a mental disability, we will show that equality and dignity become operational tools that reveal the incapacity of a number of prisoners to participate in prison life while seeking to mitigate it. It results in their exclusion within the prison setting.