France's justice minister is transferring 100 of the country’s most dangerous inmates to a high-security prison to prevent ...

As France's plan to isolate its 100 most dangerous drug traffickers at a high-security prison progresses, the first 17 of the inmates arrived at the facility in Vendin-le-Vieil in the north of the ...

France is transferring 100 of its most dangerous inmates, described as drug kingpins, to a high-security prison to halt their ...

A French court on Thursday ruled in favour of the release of Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, a pro-Palestinian Lebanese militant ...

France is planning to build a brand new high-security prison in the Amazon rainforest, near the site of the notorious Devil’s Island penal colony that inspired the 1973 movie “Papillon ...

A French court on Thursday ruled for the release from prison of Lebanese militant Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, after serving ...

Le Scouarnec, who has been jailed since 2017, is already serving a 15-year prison sentence, for a conviction in 2020 for the rape and sexual assault of four children, including two nieces.

France's prison service said Saturday it had launched an investigation after a man escaped by smuggling himself into his cellmate's bag as he left jail, having served his sentence. The man was ...

A man has escaped from a prison in France by hiding in a laundry bag belonging to his cellmate who was being released after finishing his sentence, an official told local media.