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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...