France's prisons are chronically overcrowded. Now, the government is turning to the jungles of French Guiana to house some of ...

France plans to build a maximum-security prison wing for drug traffickers and Islamic militants near a former penal colony in French Guiana.

By announcing on Saturday the creation of a 60-bed high-security wing within the future Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni prison, ...

The €400 million high-security jail will be built in France's overseas region of French Guiana in South America.

France plans to build a maximum-security prison wing for drug traffickers and radicalised Islamists near a former penal ...

In an interview carried by Le Journal du Dimanche on Saturday, French Justice Minister Gerald Darmanin revealed that he plans ...

France is planning to build a brand new high-security prison in the Amazon rainforest, near the site of the notorious Devil’s ...

France’s plan to build a €400 million high-security prison in the Amazonian town of Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni has triggered fierce backlash from French Guiana’s leaders. Touted as a tool against ...

France will build a high-security prison in the Amazon to isolate drug lords and gang leaders amid rising violence in ...

The facility more than 7,000 kilometres from mainland France will include a “high-security unit” designed to house drug trafficking convicts and “Islamists”.

Speaking on Sunday during a visit to French Guiana, a French territory that borders Suriname and Brazil, Justice Minister Gérald Darmanin said the facility would house drug kingpins and radical ...