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

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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

French Guiana is a major transit point for South ... facility brought back chilling memories of the penal colony of Cayenne, commonly known as Devil’s Island, which housed French prisoners ...