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

France is set to construct a high-security prison in French Guiana. This move aims to isolate dangerous criminals, including ...

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

The country's Justice Minister Gérald Darmanin announced the €400-million scheme during a visit to French Guiana on Sunday.

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

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

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

French government announces plans to construct a maximum-security prison in French Guiana to house the most dangerous ...

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

Most prisons tend to be located in fairly remote areas for a multitude of reasons. That is certainly the case with one that will be used to hold some ...