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, ...

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 radicalised Islamists near a former penal ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — France plans to build a maximum-security prison wing for drug traffickers and Islamic militants near a former penal colony in French Guiana, sparking an outcry among ...

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 ...